DOI Artikel:
Levetus, A. S.: Dr. Figdor's collection of old chairs, Vienna
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20710#0357
Ancient Chairs
The long-backed chair on page 332 (with detail their arms carved on the backs, and different
shown on page 333) is late fifteenth century, districts had their own peculiar designs, generally
and came from the Strozzi Palace, Florence. representative of the trade to which the owner
It has fine contours, and was probably designed belonged. The style was patrician, and was only
by the then architect of the Strozzi family. The distinguished from such by bearing the badge
three legs have been retained, but they are of the workman. The miller, the shoemaker, the
stronger and more severe. The tall back is farrier, the carpenter, each had his own special
surmounted by the arms of the Strozzi family. chair. That of the Millers' Guild (page 344) is
Several Gothic and Renaissance backs, which, being so white from the flour of past ages that it has
less destructible than the
other parts, have been
preserved intact, are here
illustrated. BgSBB^^SS^
The revolving chair, hBHV1S^/I*^% .i-miiMfiMtf—Ji
which dates from about
[500, bears a remarkable ■ tShfcyrtHF^l
affinity to the modern \, Jw^^mFw J/Fmitm.
American office-chair. _^^i&&-3ir.Maf~i^\*Jg.r
On pages 341 and 344 are f4m
shown two views of a re- j
volving chair of another /j*^" .
period, the date, 1649, VP
being carved conspicu- VsT*^
ously in front, while the
back bears the coat-of- ,. •• j>^|^n^»^ JUmmm^MI^KVm^
arms of its first possessor, 'T''/2S8B
"a nobleman of Lindau." ^P^SrT^^vBS'^'^'^i^
Other illustrations include Bfr ■ ^i^^j!^^iJ!^^^S.^K^^iiiKr~^''^itM 1M »
armchairs of the sixteenth
century from various i^^^^^^gjp^^^^^^^^ ^ jB^HIB .
lands. There are Spanish,
T. f / •., c , .1 CHAIR HACK SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHAIR RACK SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Italian (with fane leather
mountings having a deli-
cate scroll tracery), Salz- ^^^^^mmma^^^^^tmmi^^aBiammMmmmm^^rmBm^Bammmi^™^
burg (the one arm showing
that the left arm was left
had^th own^ "
form of chair, having chair backs sixteenth century
34°
The long-backed chair on page 332 (with detail their arms carved on the backs, and different
shown on page 333) is late fifteenth century, districts had their own peculiar designs, generally
and came from the Strozzi Palace, Florence. representative of the trade to which the owner
It has fine contours, and was probably designed belonged. The style was patrician, and was only
by the then architect of the Strozzi family. The distinguished from such by bearing the badge
three legs have been retained, but they are of the workman. The miller, the shoemaker, the
stronger and more severe. The tall back is farrier, the carpenter, each had his own special
surmounted by the arms of the Strozzi family. chair. That of the Millers' Guild (page 344) is
Several Gothic and Renaissance backs, which, being so white from the flour of past ages that it has
less destructible than the
other parts, have been
preserved intact, are here
illustrated. BgSBB^^SS^
The revolving chair, hBHV1S^/I*^% .i-miiMfiMtf—Ji
which dates from about
[500, bears a remarkable ■ tShfcyrtHF^l
affinity to the modern \, Jw^^mFw J/Fmitm.
American office-chair. _^^i&&-3ir.Maf~i^\*Jg.r
On pages 341 and 344 are f4m
shown two views of a re- j
volving chair of another /j*^" .
period, the date, 1649, VP
being carved conspicu- VsT*^
ously in front, while the
back bears the coat-of- ,. •• j>^|^n^»^ JUmmm^MI^KVm^
arms of its first possessor, 'T''/2S8B
"a nobleman of Lindau." ^P^SrT^^vBS'^'^'^i^
Other illustrations include Bfr ■ ^i^^j!^^iJ!^^^S.^K^^iiiKr~^''^itM 1M »
armchairs of the sixteenth
century from various i^^^^^^gjp^^^^^^^^ ^ jB^HIB .
lands. There are Spanish,
T. f / •., c , .1 CHAIR HACK SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHAIR RACK SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Italian (with fane leather
mountings having a deli-
cate scroll tracery), Salz- ^^^^^mmma^^^^^tmmi^^aBiammMmmmm^^rmBm^Bammmi^™^
burg (the one arm showing
that the left arm was left
had^th own^ "
form of chair, having chair backs sixteenth century
34°