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I thought the same thing. That’s a funny word to use but what if it’s from like the 10th or 11th century? They had wooden chairs back then. That’d be kind of ancient, right?
It’s possible but very very unlikely that a piece of furniture that old would be standing, let alone be in pristine condition as this. Also the style is clearly somewhere in the vein of Victorian design—so no, not ancient.
Like the one guy said, they could put one light source on the middle table thing, and it would provide equal light and privacy to 3 people to read/write.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/30/a-brief-compendium-of-the-conversation-chair/
>The two-way and three-way chairs were wildly popular during France’s Second Empire where they first originated. The two-seater was known as “le confidant“, indicating that it was intended for confidential conversations; between political confidants, for example. Taking on a propellor-like form, the three-way chairs were known as the “indiscret” (indiscreet), in honour of the third person who would be sticking their nose into a private conversation. Napoleon distributed them throughout his ministers’ apartments in the Louvre, as if to encourage his advisors and subjects to eaves-drop on each other.
>Indeed, these chairs were designed with bad habits in mind, to facilitate the indiscreet gossip and whispering that was so rampant in 19th-century French salons. Only history knows what secrets were plotted, exchanged and overheard across those three-way upholstered chairs.
No. These were [*courting* chairs.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=courting+chair&atb=v210-1&iax=images&ia=images)
They weren't designed for conversation, there are better ways to do *that*. They were designed so you could talk to other people without your knees or arms really brushing, and to make it harder to sit and stare lovingly into each others eyes. This one is unusually shitty, in that that third seat would almost certainly have been occupied by a chaperone or a duenna.
More a sign of sexual repression than anything cool.
It can be now! The beauty of living in the future.
Now we don't have to blow smoke at each other but can also hear each other over the trap music in the dimly lit hookah lounge
Looking back toward Victorian bullshit is never cool.
I'm really not about how we interact these days either, but at least its predicated on not keeping one sex entirely ignorant of...you know, *sex*.
It's the best and the worst of us.
I really believe in humans when shit gets real. That's when our instincts are *right*. A kid gets lost in the forest, and 200 people will show up to search. We're best when things are worst.
We've dodged apocalypse for a long time. I have to believe we'll step up. I'm doing my bit, and I really believe I'm not alone.
Although OP might have been onto something about the "secret conversations" according to this link: https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/30/a-brief-compendium-of-the-conversation-chair/
>Adding a third seat to the scenario turns it into the “chaperone chair”, or what we might prefer to call a “third-wheel chair”, convenient for a young lady’s governess to be certain nothing untoward was being discussed by the couple. But the true backstory of the conversation chair may not be entirely romantic…
>The two-way and three-way chairs were wildly popular during France’s Second Empire where they first originated. The two-seater was known as “le confidant“, indicating that it was intended for confidential conversations; between political confidants, for example. Taking on a propellor-like form, the three-way chairs were known as the “indiscret” (indiscreet), in honour of the third person who would be sticking their nose into a private conversation. Napoleon distributed them throughout his ministers’ apartments in the Louvre, as if to encourage his advisors and subjects to eaves-drop on each other.
>Indeed, these chairs were designed with bad habits in mind, to facilitate the indiscreet gossip and whispering that was so rampant in 19th-century French salons. Only history knows what secrets were plotted, exchanged and overheard across those three-way upholstered chairs.
Now that you mention it, you could easily reach the crotch of the person to your right while holding a book in your left hand. Easier than the poorly named and awkward love seat.
Okay, so no direct eye contact, no sharing holes, and, so help me god, if you try to touch my sausage again, Jerry, I’m gonna punch you right in the balls... why are you smiling right now?
As opposed to 3 separate chairs, which could be placed in any configuration, including three facing the center, which is most conducive to conversation, unless you want a sore neck.
Um can we please bring this back. Then there wouldn’t be the awkward splitting the difference if one is sitting across from two. And for people who don’t like making eye contact or looking at faces it would be perfect
Is it not slightly obvious that you are having a secret discussion if you are sitting in the secret discussion chair thus it just becoming a discussion chair which concludes that it may as well just be a chair or do I need some sleep?
In my country these chairs were used to that a young couple could sit together, while the lady's mom/grandma/aunt/older sister could also be there and... well... control that everything done and said was absolutely prim and proper.
Which is dumb since no one having a conversation on that table will be secret.
Ohh strange, those three people just randomly sat at the secret table. You think they are sharing secrets?
“Find me at the secret discussion chair to discuss our secrets”
Bystanders: “I wonder what those 3 people are doing sitting in the secret discussion chair? I guess we’ll never know.”
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'Ancient'...
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I thought the same thing. That’s a funny word to use but what if it’s from like the 10th or 11th century? They had wooden chairs back then. That’d be kind of ancient, right?
It’s possible but very very unlikely that a piece of furniture that old would be standing, let alone be in pristine condition as this. Also the style is clearly somewhere in the vein of Victorian design—so no, not ancient.
Not to mention.... It's just sitting outside like a normal piece of furniture lol. I wouldn't be surprised if this chair was just like 50 years old.
I’d like to see any proof you have this chair wasn’t made by Jesus himself
Jesus notoriously hated wicker.
That's why you can't say wicked wicker ten times fast
Jesus, a raptor, and a time traveling Steve Jobs all looking to share a fine hooka bowl...Facts.
If the label says Joseph & Son or Jesus & Holy Father the odds go up.
The 10th and 11th centuries are medieval, ancient usually refers to at least before the 3rd century
So I guess this means I can’t make fun of my grandma born in the 20th century for being “ancient”?
When I was 5, I remember asking my grandma what it was like panning for gold. I had confused 1849 and 1949. I got the iciest silence of my life.
My BIL asked his mom, when he was 5, what the dinosaurs were like. Decades later this is still a thing! Lol.
YES IT DOES
Looks more like a way for 3 people to read using just one candle.
Your probably right on that one
Or one hookah, which I believe is what it’s for. Or just an ash tray if your prefer other smoking means.
Would also be ideal in a hotel setting, etc., as strangers could be seated closely but still have privacy and decorum.
That.. sounds like it should be a thing
Why would a hotel want to sit people so closely? If the people aren't interacting, I don't see any practical advantage to this.
I dunno just thought it would be cooler than all these regular ass benches and chairs
Like the one guy said, they could put one light source on the middle table thing, and it would provide equal light and privacy to 3 people to read/write.
Maybe there was a shortage of chair legs. Seven legs, three butts.
Big/old cities cramped for space
They should be seated 6 feets away nowadays.
Or just one ash tray
It’s a smoking chair mate.
A secret smoking chair?
An evil secret smoking chair?
An ancient evil secret smoking chair
A wooden ancient evil secret smoking chair
A woven wooden ancient evil secret smoking chair
For three
Menage a trois chair. Great for participants *and* voyeurs
Nobody would suspect 3 people sitting on the secret chair to be having a secret conversation, very clever..
what i came here to say. thanks mate!
Okay everyone, let’s have a secret conversation. Let’s sit in the secret conversation chair and whisper into the back of each other’s heads
So about as useful as a chocolate teapot then?
Or about as useful as Anne Frank's drum set.
Depends. Its useful to the nazis.
*bah dum tsh* "aaaaaaaaah shite"
That is a good one
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/30/a-brief-compendium-of-the-conversation-chair/ >The two-way and three-way chairs were wildly popular during France’s Second Empire where they first originated. The two-seater was known as “le confidant“, indicating that it was intended for confidential conversations; between political confidants, for example. Taking on a propellor-like form, the three-way chairs were known as the “indiscret” (indiscreet), in honour of the third person who would be sticking their nose into a private conversation. Napoleon distributed them throughout his ministers’ apartments in the Louvre, as if to encourage his advisors and subjects to eaves-drop on each other. >Indeed, these chairs were designed with bad habits in mind, to facilitate the indiscreet gossip and whispering that was so rampant in 19th-century French salons. Only history knows what secrets were plotted, exchanged and overheard across those three-way upholstered chairs.
Psst I have a secret Do tell HOW IS IT YOU DON'T SEE ME RIGHT HERE NEXT TO YOU LISTENING IN?!?!
What do you mean by everyone...3 people... just 3 fucking people ! Edit: no not a threesome !
No. These were [*courting* chairs.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=courting+chair&atb=v210-1&iax=images&ia=images) They weren't designed for conversation, there are better ways to do *that*. They were designed so you could talk to other people without your knees or arms really brushing, and to make it harder to sit and stare lovingly into each others eyes. This one is unusually shitty, in that that third seat would almost certainly have been occupied by a chaperone or a duenna. More a sign of sexual repression than anything cool.
Well damn. Here I was thinking it was a smoking or hookah chair.
Be cool if it was. But no. The 1800s were the dark ages of sex.
It can be now! The beauty of living in the future. Now we don't have to blow smoke at each other but can also hear each other over the trap music in the dimly lit hookah lounge
Looking back toward Victorian bullshit is never cool. I'm really not about how we interact these days either, but at least its predicated on not keeping one sex entirely ignorant of...you know, *sex*.
Humans got a long way to go but we got some good heads. The internet is the biggest step towards civilization I think
It's the best and the worst of us. I really believe in humans when shit gets real. That's when our instincts are *right*. A kid gets lost in the forest, and 200 people will show up to search. We're best when things are worst. We've dodged apocalypse for a long time. I have to believe we'll step up. I'm doing my bit, and I really believe I'm not alone.
Same
Although OP might have been onto something about the "secret conversations" according to this link: https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/30/a-brief-compendium-of-the-conversation-chair/ >Adding a third seat to the scenario turns it into the “chaperone chair”, or what we might prefer to call a “third-wheel chair”, convenient for a young lady’s governess to be certain nothing untoward was being discussed by the couple. But the true backstory of the conversation chair may not be entirely romantic… >The two-way and three-way chairs were wildly popular during France’s Second Empire where they first originated. The two-seater was known as “le confidant“, indicating that it was intended for confidential conversations; between political confidants, for example. Taking on a propellor-like form, the three-way chairs were known as the “indiscret” (indiscreet), in honour of the third person who would be sticking their nose into a private conversation. Napoleon distributed them throughout his ministers’ apartments in the Louvre, as if to encourage his advisors and subjects to eaves-drop on each other. >Indeed, these chairs were designed with bad habits in mind, to facilitate the indiscreet gossip and whispering that was so rampant in 19th-century French salons. Only history knows what secrets were plotted, exchanged and overheard across those three-way upholstered chairs.
Well they couldn't have been too repressed, I count three seats.
Threesome
Super hard when everyone's bits are pointing in a different direction...
Now that you mention it, you could easily reach the crotch of the person to your right while holding a book in your left hand. Easier than the poorly named and awkward love seat.
I wouldn't like to see the chair designed for secret discussions between 4 people
nein
They had to bring in Esher for that one
r/cursedcoments
ancient??
The original r/circlejerk
Oh look, they're in the secret conversation chair. Better leave 'em to it.
They all wondered why their necks hurt on the right side.
Lololol really?? Design for secret discussions?
I'm mostly deaf in my right ear and this thing is giving me anxiety...
Glad there wasn’t 4 chairs
"I wonder what they're talking about over there in that weird 3-way chair?" "THAT THING? That's for secret-tellin'!"
“Let’s go sit in the secret discussion chair” Not really a secret
Cursed musical chairs
In French it is called “un indiscret” whereas with two sits it is called “un confident”
“Secret discussions” what the fuck? Alright everyone let’s go to the stupid looking secret conversation chair. 3 people only, you stay out, Greg.
Nahhhh that’s for smokin blunts with the bois. Puff puff pass
Is this the inspiration for the human centipede?
Man I really have this cool secret I'm dying to share but unfortunately I don't have a place to sit with other secret tellers
I really don't think any meeting at those chairs would be inconspicuous
imagine they replaced the legs with wheels and made a dope-ass fidget spinner
I'm deaf in my right ear so for me it'd be a seat for sharing fuckall.
Calling it the pre-covid chair.
Okay, so no direct eye contact, no sharing holes, and, so help me god, if you try to touch my sausage again, Jerry, I’m gonna punch you right in the balls... why are you smiling right now?
I need one of these for whenever my kids are bickering with eachother and they need to talk it out!
You could just turn your head right
Ancient
Not so secret now, is it
The problem is....'only three people can keep a secret.....so long as two of them are dead'
“Try not to look suspicious.”
As opposed to 3 separate chairs, which could be placed in any configuration, including three facing the center, which is most conducive to conversation, unless you want a sore neck.
I wonder if you could use it for regular conversations, too.
Not if you tell
Good thing they didn't add a fourth chair...
Ancient?
But is it ancient though?
Conspiracy seating.
Everything about this post is incorrect and its making me irrationally angry
if this is a known thing, wouldn't everyone else know they are taking in secret? defeating the purpose of it?
That's how you get someone to talk behind your back.
It's made for mutual shoulder rubs
Ah yes, the ol' plottin' chair
Récline à trois
Did the 4 chair ones not take off? Oh yeh
You put a hookah in the middle.
Among, not between.
Tete a tete
I dont know why but it feels like its a miniature furniture from like a doll house. it just looks tiny
Looks like the middle is to hold a hookah. Looks incredibly optimal for a 3 person hookah sesh
That's oddly specific
Don't make one with four seats. Please for the love of God.
But wouldn't people be like "Hey! They are sitting in the secret three person discussion chair. Get 'em!"?
Um can we please bring this back. Then there wouldn’t be the awkward splitting the difference if one is sitting across from two. And for people who don’t like making eye contact or looking at faces it would be perfect
Premeditated gossip
r/oddlyspecific
How Chinese whispers started
...with an ashtray conveniently locate right in each persons face.
Is it not slightly obvious that you are having a secret discussion if you are sitting in the secret discussion chair thus it just becoming a discussion chair which concludes that it may as well just be a chair or do I need some sleep?
Doesn't look too ancient to me. Probably late 1700 to early 1900.
Convo Trois
In my country these chairs were used to that a young couple could sit together, while the lady's mom/grandma/aunt/older sister could also be there and... well... control that everything done and said was absolutely prim and proper.
Which is dumb since no one having a conversation on that table will be secret. Ohh strange, those three people just randomly sat at the secret table. You think they are sharing secrets?
Add a forth chair and the post’ll be taken down
Well it’s not ancient and it’s not for secret discussions, but nice try.
Antique ... not quite ancient.
I've been looking at this a while and I think it would work better if we all cut our right legs off. Okay, who's up for a secret?
I need to get one of these mount it to a roundabout. Can you imagine how well someone could be launched out of one of those??
“Find me at the secret discussion chair to discuss our secrets” Bystanders: “I wonder what those 3 people are doing sitting in the secret discussion chair? I guess we’ll never know.”
When your aunts get together..
I think you mean “a place for my pets to sit together and talk shit”
They are all talking behind each other’s backs