WELCOME It is with great pride that we present to you our mas furniture contracts, extensive on-line contract furniture catalogue. For the past 35 years, we at M.A.S have been supplying contract furniture for the catering and leisure industry's contract furnishers, requirements throughout the world. Wer are leaping into a new decade with the recent addition of our new showrooms at our City of London headquaters, where on display, are all the items shown in our catalogue together with carpets and curtains for all contract situations, as well as special items that, from time to time we may have offer. This hotel and restaurant furniture, website contains our extensive catalogue together with information on M.A.S and the clients and projects we have worked on in the past. If you require chairs and tables, assistance on any project, our experienced sales staff are only too eager to help, whether on the telephone, at your premises , or in our showrooms. Chair, a usually movable piece of furniture designed for the use of one person and consisting of a seat, legs, a backrest, and sometimes arms. Chairs date from ancient times. For thousands of years they were restaurant chairs, used only by royalty, nobility, the priesthood, and the wealthy classes. Chairs did not become a common article of furniture until the 16th century. In the 20th century, designers contract furniture, continued to experiment with nontraditional materials and techniques to create entirely new chair forms. The Bauhaus, an avant-garde German design school, was the source of some of the most original chair designs of the 1920s; the architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer produced the most enduring Bauhaus hotel bedroom furniture, chair models—Mies's sleek Barcelona chair of chrome steel and leather and Breuer's ingenious Wassily armchair of steel tubing and canvas. Scandinavian designers, such as the, contract upholstery Finnish architect