Le Recamier is not Art Déco, and we are not presenting it as such. The gondola chair is a French form from the late nineteenth century, fashionable from the Restauration onward and produced steadily long after. The gondola chairs, which gained popularity during the Restoration, continued as fashionable accent pieces in many French homes. It became one of the most reproduced and most lived in of all French dining models, and it stayed a fixture of bourgeois dining rooms straight through the decade we cover. The average French household setting a table in the 1930s was far more likely to own a traditional revival set like this than any piece of Art Déco.