Pair of curule armchairs in gilded steel and bronze with animal leather trim, base forming a cross ending in turned bronzes This structure thus gives a seat in the form of a bowl. The rear semicircle is raised to maintain a band-shaped backrest.
Pair of curule armchairs
Pair of curule armchairs in gilded steel and bronze with animal leather trim, base forming a cross ending in turned bronzes. This structure thus gives a seat in the form of a bowl. The rear semicircle is raised to maintain a band-shaped backrest.
Among the Romans, we called curule chair, any seat capable of easy transport: folding, folding, X-shaped seats were curule chairs. This word was then kept to designate the ivory seat where the senators and great magistrates of the Roman Republic sat.
The curule chair was very fashionable during the Renaissance then at the end of the 13th century, and finally at the beginning of the 19th century during the Directory and then during the First Empire.
Contemporary designers such as Pierre Legrain, Carlo Bugatti or Pierre Paulin have recreated curule armchairs in the spirit of these antique seats.
