Stretcher (furniture) Stretcher (furniture) A stretcher is a horizontal support element of a table, chair or other item of furniture; this structure is normally made of exposed wood and ties vertical elements of the piece together. There are numerous styles of the stretcher including circumferential, double and spindle design. This term is sometimes referred to as a stretcher beam. A very common pattern for chairs has each front leg connected to the back by the lateral stretchers, which in turn are connected by a medial stretcher. In the William and Mary period chi (from the Greek letter chi - Χ) stretchers were
Systems furniture originally intended to compress office workers to maximum density, they were quickly adapted to that purpose. Systems furniture Systems furniture is a generic term for bundles of panels, worksurfaces, shelves, and other items sold by a single manufacturer as a package for furnishing offices. Cubicles and the sea of cubicles are the item most often compliant with systems furniture, but other open plan arrangements such as office landscape are plausible, but not feasible. This is due to the lack of base support from the material. Robert Propst of the Herman Miller company is usually credited with inventing systems furniture. His