Vintage Norwegian handCarved Miniature Kubbestol, Club chair, Nordic Pattern, wooden chair, handpainted Rosemaling, RosePainted Scandinavian

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Vintage Norwegian hand Carved miniature Kubbestol or Club chair

Rose painted nordic pattern, from Norway Hemsedal.

Small chip in the back.

Perfect for a country/farmhouse style, use as decor

Obs: miniature club chair

Dimensions
11.5cm height
7.5cmcm widest part

History.
Most cube chairs are simple in design. But some are beautifully decorated with painted or carved motifs, initials, years and/or inscriptions. These chairs were probably intended as seating furniture for people of a certain status. From the Viking Age, small silver cube chairs have been found that have been worn as amulets or jewellery, and this may indicate that the cube chair was intended for people of a certain rank.

From Denmark, Troels Lund says that in the 16th century you could find cube chairs in wealthy bourgeois homes, and the National Museum in Copenhagen has a cube chair that once belonged to the famous astronomer Tyge Brahe (1546–1601).

Sigurd Erikxon says from Sweden that the kubbestolen there could be called an old man's chair or a man's chair. These names may indicate that the log chair served as the master's place, and it must have stood at the end of the long table. We know of no such tradition from Norway. With us, the husband also had his place in the high seat at the end of the long table, but it is unknown if the wall bench in the high seat has been replaced with a block chair.

During a change in the Biørn family in Kragerø in 1787, two blue-painted cube chairs are mentioned. They stood in the apartment building, but no further location is mentioned. But in Norway, as far as we know, the log chair probably primarily belonged in peasants' living rooms before dragon style and peasant romanticism found their way into bourgeois homes at the end of the 19th century.

Drammen's museum has a log chair from Ål in Hallingdal with the following inscription: Sit Trough and Sleep you old man Stol by Rønne Tre dig holde kan. Engebret Haagen Sen Storlien on 4th October 1836. The inscription on this chair says that it was made for an old man. It was painted in 1836, but the chair itself was probably made sometime in the 18th century. The shape is similar to the chair painted in the Ål roof, and placed by the light and heat from the oar or the fireplace, the log chair was probably a good place to sit for old people.

In the Middle Ages, the kubbestolen was perhaps the only type of chair that existed in the farmhouses. It probably stood by the oar or next to the bed as we know it from Åmlistua from Valle in Setesdal. When the farmhouses got fireplaces in the 17th and 18th centuries, the log chair was moved there.


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