Patent ID: 7044557

Claim:
An article of seating furniture, comprising: a rigid supporting frame including a seat portion, a backrest portion, a front wall, and a rear wall; at least one of said front wall and said rear wall comprising a composite frame member, said composite frame member including a plurality of separate planar frame members each having an end portion and coupled to one another in an overlapping end to end manner; said composite frame member including a long dimension, said frame having a width dimension, said long dimension at least twice said width dimension, said frame including a frame member which is disposed perpendicularly to said long dimension and interlockingly connected to at least two of said plurality of frame members; and at least one upholstery component attached to said frame assembly, whereby said article of seating furniture may be disassembled and shipped as a ready-to-assemble article of seating furniture in a container which is substantially shorter than said long dimension.