Paimio chair

[pahy-mee-oh]

Pai·mi·o chair

[pahy-mee-oh]
noun
a chair developed by Alvar Aalto between 1930 and 1933, having two continuous, ribbonlike elements made of bent laminated birch veneers forming the arms and legs and supporting a sheet of bent plywood that forms the back and seat.

Origin:
after Paimio, Finland, site of a sanitorium which Aalto was designing when the chair was developed
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Paimio chair is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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