Chair

"This Elizabethan style armchair belongs to a six chairs set of Can Llopis dining room. Its design that replies to that period historicist taste combines a Louis XV structure with the cabriolet front legs, with the back almost oval of Louis XV reminiscences.

Different from the rest of the set this chair has a double function. If you move away the recover part and raise the front skirt, the seat base presents a horseshoe shape transforms it into a chair to give birth.

On the other side, the arms extreme form designed so that midwife could hold on herself and use force, it helped to make birth easier.
The tradition that women gave birth seated in open seats, quite usual for almost the XIX century, disappeared due to medicine advancements."