Lyre arm

This particular splat chair back was a favourite motif employed by the well known English furniture designer Thomas Sheraton.

Lockwood further illustrates a lyre supported games table from circa 1820 believed to have been produced by Duncan Phyfe.

[11] In a further example in the Irish Manor House Murder reference is made to an expensive "Renaissance lyre chair" in the context of a very fine piece of furniture.

[12] In another instance the lyre chair design was used to evoke period opulence in a parlour scene of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories;[13] in that scene one of the characters sank into a lyre chair in the presence of other fine period furnishings including a Chippendale table.

In modern literature the lyre chair is sometimes referenced outside its context of classical furniture merely as the backdrop to a scene description as in the novel Le Tournesol,[14] where a sensuous sequence unfolds: "She tossed her underclothing onto the lyre chair, pulled down the bedspread, slipped into bed, stretched out for the light switch and curled into the tepid darkness of her covers."