1.   Make ties to fasten simple slip covers for chairs or to tie seat cushions to chair backs.

2.   At the Elden Collection, leaf-motif cutouts punctuate some pieces, such as chair backs and sides of daybeds, in the country Cabot group.

3.   But as rooms grow bigger and ceilings higher, chair backs have gotten taller, said Atlanta interior designer Charles Gandy.

4.   Many of the early examples possess cactus shapes for chair backs.

5.   Whole tusks were hidden in chair backs, and round cross-sections and carvings were concealed in the seats.