With the renewed interest in historical furniture for today's home, this 500-year-old replica antique chair features richly ornate Latin phrases hand carved into its arms and back. This traditional ''faldstool'' is hand carved of solid mahogany with complex pegged joints with no nails or glue. Truly a work of medieval art!
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Glastonbury chair is a nineteenth-century term for an earlier wooden chair, usually made of oak, possibly based on a chair made for Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. This 500-year-old solid mahogany replica antique chair features richly ornate Latin phrases hand carved into its arms and back.
The Glastonbury chair was thought to exist since the Early Middle Ages, but seems to have disappeared from use in part of the Later Middle Ages; it re-emerged in use in Italy by the fifteenth century AD.
Design Toscano calls this a ''faldstool'' The chair does not fold. Although it is frequently assumed to do so, especially when made with circular tenons, triangular frames remain rigid even if they are joined by bearings. Like the originals, the tenons are tusked with complex pegged joints with no nails or glue. So, while it arrives assembled, it may be quickly partially dismantled for moving.. Randle Conrad. Westminster, Co, United States. Fri Oct 06 2017