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Article: New York neoclassical furniture. (Current and Coming).
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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The civilizations of ancient Rome and Greece have long been venerated by the cultures that followed, including the humanists of the Renaissance and the founding fathers of the United States. When eighteenth-century archeologists discovered ancient sites in Italy there was a renewed interest in the architecture and decorative arts of the classical past. In furniture, one of the venerable forms found in ancient Rome was the sella curulis (seat of honor)--a type of folding stool reserved for political authorities known as the magistrates curulis, and the depiction of these stools on ancient coins is incontrovertible evidence that every citizen would have understood their ...
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