klismoi

Noun

klismos (plural klismoi)

1. A light Ancient Greek chair with curved legs.
   • Stephen Miller Siegel, a Manhattan architect and decorator, created a chic chartreuse-and-blue bedroom, with an immense Ruhlmann 1928 vanity from the Delorenzo Gallery; a pair of 18th-century Chinese trunks, a lacquer screen depicting the Tuileries Gardens and a pair of 18th-century Danish klismos...2007 July 20, Wendy Moonan, “Chinese Porcelain With a French Twist”, in New York Times