Contoured chair

An article of furniture for sitting includes a closed frame covered by a flexible cover. The opposite sides of the frame are captured in retainers formed in counterfacing surfaces of upright support members held in spaced relation by spacer members. The opposite sides of the frame are resiliently flexible so that they can be stressed from a natural spacing to a lesser spacing without exceeding the elastic limits of the frame sides. When the frame sides are retained by the support members and those members are connected to the spacer members, the frame sides, usually constrained by a nonextensible band or by the fabric cover, possess appreciable stored energy tending to urge them apart toward their natural spacing so that the frame sides are retained securely by the support members under the weight of an ordinary person.