Short Chair's History
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Since
3000 a.D. there are the first testimony of woodworking and above all of
chairs, used also by the ancient Egyptians for the ceremonies From
this period there was an incessant journey that saw exchanges of
societies and cultures that in the furniture are called Styles. The
Greek and the Romans, used stools more or less adorned and produced also
portable litters, barber’s and surgeon’s chairs. In
the Middle Ages was habitual the chairs made as “X”, successively
called “savonarola”. In
the same epoch there were also chairs with high back with or without arms
stuffed with damask that had good luck in XVI cen. and gave rise to the
armchair. Our
production is much more specialised in reproduction of chairs and
armchairs that were been created for the first time between the XVII and
XIX cen. By teacher named Chippendale (1718-1779), Robert Adam
(1728-1792): artists able to explane with fine sensibility the aesthetical
trendof their time.Some of our models inspirated by this period are: n.
131 (Sheraton), 132 (Chippendale), 231 (Hepplewhite), 325 (Chippendale):
the originals of these chairs are exhibited in museums all over the world. At
the beginning of XVII century appears the style called “Empire”,
which gives its name form Napoleon the Imperator. In
the 1925 born the Decò Style, which furniture express luxury and
refinement, destined
to an important clientele, that loves the material esteemed and the
technique of work very accurate.
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Painting discovered in a Pyramid in Egypt |
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