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The Chiavari chair, also known as the Chiavarina, or Tiffany chair, is a wooden chair of Ligurian design. HistoryThe Chiavarina was created in 1807 by a cabinetmaker from Chiavari on the northwestern Italian coast, Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi, who at the invitation of the president of the Economic Society of Chiavari, the Marquis Stefano Rivarola, reworked some chairs in the French Empire style, simplifying the decorative elements and lightening the structural elements. The chair was a success and soon many factories opened in Chiavari and surrounding towns. When Gaetano Descalzi died in 1855, about 600 workers were making Chiavari chairs.[1] The chair was praised by Charles Albert of Savoy, Napoleon III,[2] and by the sculptor Antonio Canova.[3] The success of the Chiavarina declined following the introduction of the Austrian chairs of Michael Thonet which were mass-produced, less expensive, and consisting of few elements easily assembled, and in the second half of the twentieth century, following competition from industrial production. The architect and designer Gio Ponti was inspired by the structural system of the Chiavari chair for his Superleggera chair of 1955.[4] Features{{Unreferenced section|date=August 2017}}The chair is designed with each component made for the specific stresses it will carry. Descalzi designed a slot system for the construction and a system to tie the strips of the purple willow which form the seat of the chair directly to the frame. The timbers originally used by Descalzi were wild cherry and maple, which were added to beech and ash, all of them from inland forests in Italy. See also
References1. ^A. Montagni, L. Pessa, L'arte della Sedia a Chiavari, Sagep, Genova 1985, p. 14. 2. ^G. B. Brignardello, Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi detto il Campanino e l'arte delle sedie in Chiavari, Cellini, Firenze 1870, p.38 3. ^P. A. Lattarulo, Gaetano Descalzi, la sua "chiavarina", i suoi continuatori, Tipografia Colombo, Chiavari 2005, p. 51. 4. ^E. Morteo, Grande atlante del design dal 1850 ad oggi, Electa, Milano 2008. Bibliography
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