A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church or sometimes a courtroom.

Polypropylene is another term that anyone shopping for high school furniture has come across. It might sound imposing and technical, but polypropylene is just a soft plastic. The seats on school chairs are made of either hard or soft plastic.

THE FIRST chair of this type - that is, the folding X-type chair - was discovered in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians: often carved with animal forms and covered with whole skins.