X-chair (Savonarola chair)

The use of the name Savonarola chair comes from a nineteenth-century trade term evoking Girolamo Savonarola, is a folding armchair of the type standardized during the Italian Renaissance. The chair in the illustration consists of a wooden flat-arched back rail carved with a coat-of-arms in low relief, and connected to the back of the straight arms of the chair and a seat made of narrowly fitted wooden slats. The wood used in construction of the chair is the typical walnut, as in other gothic and renaissance furniture.