# How many chairs per capita are there in your residence? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456 "2005-01-19T00:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/61 "2005-01-20T11:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] 1 elephant chair (seats 2) [QUOTE] I need to know what an elephant chair is. I would like to own one I think. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/62 "2005-01-20T12:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=calm kiwi] [QUOTE=ShibbOleth] 1 elephant chair (seats 2) > [@](#): > > I need to know what an elephant chair is. I would like to own one I think. It’s a chair, made in Thailand, like the various Thai royalty use to ride the backs of elephants. I’ll see if I can find a picture online that is similar to ours, which is made of blonde teak, with silk cushions. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/63 "2005-01-20T12:10:03Z")
I knew I needed one! I love elephants, they don’t work so well in the garden but the chair may be an adequate substitute. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/64 "2005-01-20T12:21:16Z")
Well, here’s what our [dining table looks like](http://www.vvg-vietnam.com/images/handicrafts/furniture/CM%20Rose-02w.jpg). Ok, took a while, but I found a picture of a couple of elephant chairs. [Go to this link](http://pages.zdnet.com/lewispeter/teakheirlooms/id11.html), then scroll down. The first one is the third picture down on the left (title: Thai sofa in teak and rose), the second, which is a lot more like ours, is the 17th picture down on the right (title: Thai elephant settee in varnished teak). Ours looks a lot like that one (the one in the back). You can see on both how the curved “legs” of the chair is designed to fit on an elephant’s back. Of course these designs are not functional/practical because of the ornamentation. Ours is about 2-2.5 meters wide, which would have required a pretty big elephant. If you go to this link you’ll see a picture of [elephants with this type of chair on their back](http://www.21cep.com/thai/eleph1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/65 "2005-01-20T12:22:43Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > I knew I needed one! I love elephants, they don’t work so well in the garden but the chair may be an adequate substitute. I’m sure you can find one with elephants carved in the base, back or sides. If I ever get to Thailand again I’ll look for one for you, although the trip’s a lot quicker where from where you are. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/66 "2005-01-20T12:28:02Z")
OH I love your chairs. I shall win the lottery very soon. Thailand is a very cool place and you, me and everyone else needs to go there now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/67 "2005-01-20T15:40:59Z")
2 people (with another due in 3 weeks!) in a 2.5-story row home. Kitchen: 1 wooden bench by door Dining room: 6 wooden chairs (given to us by my father-in-law’s girlfriend whom my wife refuses to acknowledge), 1 antique school bench Living room: 1 La-Z-Boy recliner, 3-seater couch, 1 [cheap IKEA chair](http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&productId=18206&langId=-1&parentCats=10114*10292) Nursery: 1 rocking chair (my wife’s great-grandmother’s) Office: 1 desk chair (lifted from the toss pile at work) Attic: 1 desk chair, 3-seater futon Basement: 4 folding [NICK chairs](http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&productId=11298&langId=-1&parentCats=10105*10187) from IKEA Porch: 4 plastic deck chairs Trunk of car: 2 folding camp chairs That equals seating for 29 or 14.5 per capita. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/68 "2005-01-20T16:13:00Z")
I live alone in a two room apartment and don’t entertain. I have four dining room chairs I don’t sit in, two window seats I rarely sit in, and a couch I sit on in the monring. Mostly I sit on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Goofie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@Goofie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/69 "2005-01-20T16:49:05Z")
Thirty chairs for three people. Yes, we can stand but thank God we don’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456/70 "2005-01-20T17:54:44Z")
24 seats/2 people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-chairs-per-capita-are-there-in-your-residence/285456.md?page=3)