Found in Montpellier, this 19th-century chair is a chaise alsacienne, the regional plank chair made in Alsace on the eastern edge of France along the German border. The back board is cut into a tall rounded paddle shape, paler than the legs, with a small heart-and-arch cutout near the top. The cutout is both decoration and function: it shaped the silhouette and gave a hand somewhere to grip when the chair was lifted and moved. Sylvie places it in an entryway as the chair you sit on for a moment, the one that holds a coat more often than a person.
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