The Rocking Fifties & Sixties of my youth.
Rocking chairs are quite common in most family homes in Goa with their own unique designs and construction by Goan carpenters. It is essentially a varnished standard teak wood chair with its usual feature of a pair of 2 curved pieces attached to the bottom of the legs. The seat and the back rest is cane-strung.
They are made to rock and do not have foldable extensions to rest one's legs on like the Goan 'volter', which has 4 legs firmly on the ground with arm rest extensions that swing out to serve as leg rests. The original Voltaire chair was not a rocking chair and did not have extendable rests.
A single or a couple of these chairs usually complements several other straight-back chairs in the living and family rooms.
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