Vitoria chair: origin and diffusion of a popular seat
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From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, the so-called, by its origin, Vitoria's chair, acquired a popularity as few furniture have had. “Popular” for the great acceptance that they enjoyed from the beginning of their manufacturing; it dwelt from palaces and large houses – but in the back rooms or non-protocol meetings - to the newly constructed buildings of a social class, the bourgeoisie, which imposed its tastes and forms of sociability in coffee shops, theaters, academies ... But also “popular” in the sense that its mass production allowed the lower classes, urban first and gradually rural, access to consumer goods as never before in history had done. In what house, however humble it was, there was at least a Vitoria's chair …"
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