Campeche chair

The Campeche (or butaca, butaque as it is more commonly known in Spanish) is a reclining, non-folding, sling-seat chair with a distinctive side-placed curule base.

[1] Other related forms include the "planter's chair" or "bootjack" (that bears folding arms that extend outward as leg rests) which is associated with equatorial climes and plantation-based societies.

Examples are embellished in keeping with regional tastes and carved or brass finials, tooled leather seats, and ornate inlay work are regular features.

Gontar has emphasized the chair's relation to the European curule (also "Savonorola" and sillón de cadera) and has defined its cultural and artistic significance as follows: We must examine objects beyond their construction for what they may broadly represent.

In this regard, its consistent use as a throne is noteworthy, thereby fixing the courtly ruler atop the globe and signifying secular authority in the Western Hemisphere.