Rooms of the Italian Renaissance were sparsely furnished and even though the pieces of furniture were rectilinear, some chairs such as the Savonarola and Dante had strong structural curves. Furniture decorations required great skill and included processes like inlay, veneer application, and carving. and the finest furniture was made with walnut but also other wood were used like pine, cypress, chestnut, elm, and poplar.
Seating included chairs of the X-form, stools, benches and the cassapanca, which was a long wooden bench with a back and a seat that you could use as storage. Tables were long and narrow. Trestle tables were used for dining, and smaller tables were designed to be used in the center of a room or for occasional purposes and tabletops were octagonal, square, or round.
The lettiera and the four-poster beds, and beds with simple boards and legs were the main types of beds in the Italian Renaissance. Some beds also had bed hanging, which are kind of like like what we know today as canopies. Before poster beds became common, hangings were suspended from hooks, rods, or a dome attached to the ceiling.
This is the Savonarola chair. It was named after a monk and constructed of a series of interlaced wooden strips of curule form.
The Dante chair had 2 traverse pair of curved legs crossing. The seat and back were made of leather or velvet
As the design of the trestle table became more advanced, and complex, tabletop surfaces became thicker and had more carving and motifs. Legs were substantial & were connected with stretchers placed near the floor. And if the table didn’t rest directly on the floor then it had legs carved of lion’s paws.
The cassone ( a strong chest), was one of the most familiar storage pieces and furniture structures of throughout the Renaissance. the primarily 3 shapes: simple rectangle form, convex, or boat shaped form, or shapes of like that of a sarcophagus.
Textiles were very important in the treatment of beds. They uses textiles that were suitable for summer and winter because they helped guard against insects, or help keep people warm when it was cold. They were also used to hang from a single hook from the ceiling to be fixed where it could surround the bed.
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