wingback
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Velvet wingback chairs flank a fireplace and a stained-glass window obscures the parking lot outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
“You have to take them back to your office,” said Washington, 46, as she sat, cross-legged, on a wingback chair at the Spence School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Used at Chelsea on both flanks and central midfield, and even at wingback, Pulisic has been primarily on the left side of the attack with the U.S,
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
“Well, my girl, it sounds as if you’ve had quite a time of it,” she says, motioning for me to sit across from her in one of two floral wingback chairs.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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