Curule stool seat in polished wrought iron with brass ornamentation, 20th century

- Curule stool seat in polished wrought iron with brass ornamentation, 20th century

- Curule stool seat in polished wrought iron with gilt brass ornamentation, 20th century work. An X-shaped base formed of two tangent semicircles connected by a fluted central crosspiece. The junction features a spherical gilt brass ornament that echoes those surmounting the upper semicircles, while the lower ones end in deer or bovine hooves. The seat is supported by stretched black leather.
- This chair is part of the neoclassical seating fashion of the Directoire period, during which the taste for antiques was expressed and established itself at the end of the 18th century. With the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii, ancient forms were brought back into fashion, thanks in particular to the painter Jacques-Louis David, who designed his own furniture for the composition of his paintings in his studio and entrusted their execution to the cabinetmaker Georges Jacob. Like the chaise longue and the Athenian chaise longue, curule armchairs are among the characteristic furniture of this period.

- The curule, an official chair on which only Roman magistrates and pro-magistrates holding the imperial title could sit, represented a symbol of power in ancient Rome. Through the metal materials used (iron and brass) and the blend of curvilinear shapes and straight lines, this stool is a new translation of curule into 20th-century language. This work is similar to the production of Maison Jansen.

- Good condition, with minor wear to be noted on the leather.

- Dimensions: Height: 45.5 cm, Width: 46.5 cm, Depth: 36.5 cm

Ref: 08SZRZ5WUG