Armchair

Armchair - Styles and Influences

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Armchair
Italy (Tuscany?); end 16th c.

These armchairs are perfect examples of a type of Italian furniture which gained its particular form and decoration in the 16th c. They differ from simple cinquecento chairs in decorative detail (arms, gold-stamped leather). A larger number were produced from the end of the 16th c. Other European countries adopted this type of armchair towards the end of the 16th and in the 17th c.