A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academ
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.”