Porch swing

A porch swing is attached to a free-standing structure or frame and mostly sheltered garden bench made of wood or metal, mostly with applied upholstery, which can be easily placed in rocking motion. In the German -speaking world, the furniture piece according to the American film City of Hollywood is named. In the U.S., even those hot swings porch swing ( porch swing), the designation to Hollywood there is unknown.

History

The inventor of the porch swing is not known and therefore unknown. Proven existence of such garden furniture since 1909 in England. In the 1950s came the breakthrough: Various Hollywood movies the swings had become well known in Europe and received here today their common names. The Hollywood swing became an epitome of itself as modern and sophisticated imaging leisure time of the economic miracle. The upholstery pattern of swings were often gaudy and awoke - like Hawaiian shirts - associations with own vacation trips in the South or even from movies known exotic distant lands.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Austrian journalist Margret Dünser asked for the successful ZDF television series VIP - rocking members of the international jet-set in their private environment and even, occasionally, in one of the eponymous swinging for an interview. Through this mission, her soon proverbial name of the impression of the cosmopolitan was reinforced, which connected with the garden furniture.

Today the porch swing has disappeared from most gardens, but still available in stores. Unupholstered furniture with a similar function are also made ​​of wood or aluminum.