Here is a lesson plan to help those of you planning
chair units with your middle school students. It
doesn't look like these chairs are life size:
http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnetnyc/llangsner/chair.htm
Lesson URL:
http://www.teachnet-lab.org/is24/llangsner/chair/chairindex.htm
Student learned about Impressionism in a previous
lesson. The chair lesson expanded into modern art
styles - using paintings of Van Gogh's and Gaugin's
chairs. Looks like they used corrugated cardboard and
cardboard tubes.