Sitting plays an important role in everyone’s life, just think about the amount of time you spend sitting on an average day. In fact, some recent estimates suggest that we spend more than eight hours a day sitting down. We sit when we eat, when we drive, when we are at work, when we watch TV and the list goes on and on. So with all this time an average human being spends sitting, there must be some pretty familiar seats. Perhaps these seats could include some famous banquette seats where a king or queen dined or perhaps some world famous booth seat in a 1950s style cafe where James Dean or Marilyn Monroe sat. These are arguably some very famous seats, however it seems there are some even more famous seats outside of them.
The first seat on this list is what is considered the most famous seat in cinema. It’s the bench seat from the movie Forrest Gump. This famous seat appears throughout the entire film and is where the kind and simple man tells the story of his life and how he met the love of his life, Jenny. This seat is not in a movie studio in Hollywood, it is an actual bench located in Savannah, Georgia, USA, that thousands of people use every day. The bank is mentioned on every tour of Savannah and is one of the most famous landmarks in the city.
Next on our list of known seats is one of the most famous seats in music history. You might be thinking it’s a seat at the Sydney Opera House, or maybe one at Madison Square Garden, but you’d be wrong. The next famous seat in this article is at Graceland, Memphis Tennessee. That’s right, it’s the world famous bathroom where Elvis passed away. Some people would argue that this doesn’t count as a seat, but what else do you do on a toilet if you don’t sit?
The last seat in this article is what can be considered the most famous seat in the world. The Pope’s chair or “throne” located in St. Peter’s Basilica is where the leader of the Catholic faith performs Mass and where he makes some of the most important decisions for Catholicism. Nearly a billion people around the world look to this seat for guidance from the man who sits on it and that is why it can be considered the most famous seat in the world.
So there you have it, those are perhaps the world’s three most famous seats from three of the world’s most influential media, film, music and religion.