Sgabello

Sgabello

A sgabello is a chair from the Italian Renaissance. This chair is made out of walnut and consists of a thin seat back and an octagonal seat. This chair or sometimes considered a stool would often be placed in hallways. Its primary purpose was not comfort.

It is also known as the side chair. It has solid supports, which are called rombus seat supports. It wasn't used for a stool.

A sgabello is an Italian Renaissance furniture object found in the sixteenth century. It is a side chair, made of walnut, with a variety of carvings and turned elements. A sgabello is armless, with a thin back and an octagonal seat, not so comfortable, not designed for long term seating. The legs can be either tow decorated boards with a stretcher for support, or three separate impost legs that would be also ornamented and carved.

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* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-537382/sgabello Encyclopedia Britannica article]
*http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/BK-15378?lang=en


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