platform rocker
Britishnoun
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Dear Heloise: To keep your platform rocker/swivel recliner from slipping backward on your carpet, take a piece of waffle plastic shelf liner, cut a square of approximately 12 inches and place it under the platform.
From Washington Post
Philip Pearlstein, that master of the art school nude?the flesh always rendered cold, the formality of the body emphasized by photographic-style cropping?has produced one of the best paintings of his career in Female Model on Platform Rocker, 1977 -78, with its uneasily tilting floor line and stutter of shadows cast by the slats of the chair across the pale wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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