Chairs like this stood in the entrance halls of Italian houses, lined up along the wall as much for show as for sitting. Found in Avignon, this Italian sgabello dates to the period when the form had already been in use for centuries, a shaped plank back rising from an octagonal seat set on two solid carved sides. The sgabello goes back to the Renaissance, when a family would carve its coat of arms into the back and the chair became a way to announce the household to anyone who came through the door, comfort never being the point. Sylvie stands it against a wall on its own, the kind of chair that reads as much as sculpture as seat.
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