Cadira de repòs and llit de repòs (daybed)

What is

• Cadira de repòs: in Mallorca, the armchair (armchair) (DCVB, Mall.). Respectful seat in the room.
• Llit de repòs: smaller and less dressed bed than the main one, to rest during the day (DCVB, old). Documented in a Majorcan possessió in 1491.

How is

• Chaise longue: walnut or pine frame with arms, high backrest, upholstered, leather or bova seat.
• In the mansions, games (cadiram) in the Carles III style with carving and upholstery (Can Vivot).
• Relative: Mallorcan walnut escambells from the 18th century, balustraded legs and H-shaped crossbar, 77.5 × 43 × 51 cm, designed to go before painted panels (Christie's).
• Llit de repòs: low bed, sometimes with a backrest, without curtains.

How is fa

• Arm chair: raw work or cabinetmaker's fuster, with pieces turned by the turner .
• Upholstery: the matalasser or the tapisser (check the trade in Palma).

Com s'usa

• In the living room, lined up against the wall: the house receives.
• Seat of the master or the elderly person.
• The litt de repòs for a nap or for the sick.

Vocabulary

• cadira de repòs: armchair (Mall.).
• cadiram: set of chairs in a room.
• llit de repòs: rest bed.
• escambell: stool.
• cadires plegadisses: folding chairs ("cadires planadisses", 1491).

History

• 1491: “vuyt cadires plaguedisses” and a litt de repòs in the inventory of Gabriel Cerdà, possessió de Santa Margalida (BSAL 2017).
• 1609: «In the room 8 cadires de repòs» (DCVB; Catalan source).
• 18th century: cadiram and cadires of repòs Carles III in the mansions of Palma (Can Vivot).

On veure'n

• Can Vivot (Palma): repòs cadires and Carles III cadiram (AEM 2022).
• Els Calderers (Sant Joan) and La Granja d'Esporles: furnished rooms (please verify pieces).
• Museu d'Arts Decoratives, Son Pax (to verify).

Why is it design

• Hierarchy in the seat: with arms or without them, you knew who was in charge.
• Series furniture: the cadiram is a system of equal pieces for a room.

For the project

• Piece: armchair with bova or palm seat, contemporary version of the repòs cadira.
• Trades: carpentry-i-moble-mallorqui · cadiraires-i-boga · turners . Files: cadira-de-boga-i-banc , canape , llit.md.

Sources

• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=rep%F2s
• estudidelmoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ProgramaMALLORCA_CAT.pdf
• ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/localsite/collect/bolletiSocietatLulliana/inde
• christies.com.cn/lot/lot-1450672

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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