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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 250559, member: 37&quot;]This chair does not scream empire revival to me but there are elements. The flat front plane with splayed legs and the under-curved hand rest are particular elements.&nbsp; The tall arms could fit with the style but are also a nod to classicism.&nbsp; All the spindle work does not fit with the style.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is some ancient precedence for tall arm chairs going all the way back to Egyptian times.&nbsp; French Empire chairs sometimes employed them.&nbsp; However, there seems to have been a resurgence of the form in late Victorian/Edwardian times with prime manifestation in the Empire revival style. This may have been more a function of a classical revival than being true to the Empire style.&nbsp; There were some particularly monsterous tall-armed tub chairs produced at the beginning of the 20th century that really had no precedence in earlier American empire forms. </p><p><br /></p><p>This was a period of experimentation with style and designers borrowed elements from various designs to create some thing new.&nbsp; There was also a penchant for excess.&nbsp; I think this chair is an example of such design and not entirely successful IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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