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Lyre arm
A lyre arm is an element of design in furniture, architecture or the decorative arts, wherein a shape is employed to emulate the geometry of a lyre;〔(On-line furniture glossary )〕 the original design of this element is from the Classical Greek period, simply reflecting the stylistic design of the musical instrument. One of the earliest uses extant of the lyre design in the Christian era is a 6th-century AD gravestone with lyre design in double volute form.〔''Archaic Attic Gravestones'', Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, 1944, Oberlin College Press〕 In a furniture context, the design is often associated with a scrolling effect of the arms of a chair or sofa. The lyre arm design arises in many periods of furniture, including Neoclassical schools and in particular the American Federal Period and the Victorian era. Well known designers who employed this stylistic element include the noted New York furniture designer Duncan Phyfe.〔''American Furniture And Decoration Colonial And Federal''. Edward Stratton Holloway, Kessinger Publishing (1928)〕
The term lyre chair is a closely associated design element also originating in motif from the Greek Classical period and appearing often in chair backs starting circa 1700 AD. In the lyre chair, the splat features a pair of single lyre scrolls with bilateral symmetry. This particular splat chair back was a favourite motif employed by the well known English furniture designer Thomas Sheraton.〔(''Colonial Furniture in America'', Luke Vincent Lockwood, Scribner Publishers (1901) )〕 Sometimes a chair of this design is called a lyre back chair.
==In musical apparati==
Not surprisingly the lyre motif has been used through history as an element of music stand and other musical appurtenance design. Perhaps most commonly the lyre design has been used for centuries as the backing of sheet music stands.〔(''Dolls' House Shops, Cafes & Restaurants'' By Jean Nisbett, 2005, Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications Limited, East Sussex, England )〕 As an example of the lyre design in other musical furniture, one highly ornate piano described in the 1902 catalog of the collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art was depicted as: "having in the centre a lyre supporting the pedals".〔"Musical Instruments of all Nations", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 1902〕
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