Wingback chair

A wing chair is an easy chair or club chair with "wings" attached to the back of the chair, typically, but not always, stretching down to the arm rest. The purpose of the "wings" was to shield the occupant of the chair from draughts and to trap the heat from a fireplace in the area where the person would be sitting. Hence, in the past, these were often used near a fireplace.

Currently, most examples of wing chairs are fully upholstered with exposed wood legs, but many of the oldest examples of wing chairs have an exposed frame with padded cushions at the seat, armrests, back, and sometimes wings.
The first chair design featuring these "wings" was entirely made of wood, historically used by barber-surgeons, with the wings functioning to prevent draughts from blowing hair, blood and other bodily fluids around during surgery.

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