This is the radio operators chair from the Hindenburg, which somehow escaped undamaged when the airship exploded while docking in Lakehurst, NJ. Part of the reason may be that the radio room was sealed to prevent sparks from the electrical equipment from igniting the hydrogen gas which kept the airship afloat.

The new thinking on the Hindenburg is that it was not the hydrogen which caught fire from a static electricity discharge as it touched down but rather the doped skin, which was treated with a highly inflammable agent.