Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, this early 20th-century armchair carries the posture of an old French household, the sort of seat once kept for the head of the table or the corner of a library. Its frame is turned in tight barley-twist spirals down the legs, arms, and stretchers, the wood worn to a warm honey and the seat and back covered in a flowering tapestry pinned with rows of brass nails. The spiral turning is a Louis XIII flourish from the early 1600s, hard enough to cut cleanly that it slipped in and out of French fashion for the better part of three centuries. Sylvie sets it at the head of a long table, the one chair with arms among all the others.
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