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An X-chair (also scissors chair, Dante chair, or Savonarola chair) is a chair with X-shaped frame. It was known in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
History

A type of folding chair with a frame like an X viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy. Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy, or a Luther chair in Germany, the X-chair was a light and practical form that spread through Renaissance Europe. In England, the Glastonbury chair made an X-shape by crossing the front and back legs, while in Spain X-chairs were inlaid with ivory and metals in the Moorish designs.

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.
                                                            

 Renaisance gothic is a style that flourished in the late 1800's through the early 1900's ,its most famous prodigy is the bauhaus ,which came of age in the twenties and was a great success untill the emergence of the third reich in the midle to late thirties,when most of its artists moved to either england or the u.s.