| Considered a sumptuary object, Equipale Mexican | | | | Mexican restaurants and are popular in homes of |
| Furniture is traditional furniture that comes from | | | | the Southwest. The chair's method of |
| the Aztec word impala which means seat. Hernan | | | | construction, combining the compressive strength |
| Cortez appointed equipales as seats of honor to | | | | of wood, the tensile strength of fibers and the |
| dignitaries of the time, as it represented social | | | | soft comfort of leather, utilizes the best qualities |
| status. It can be made of leather from pig or | | | | of each material. |
| cow, and willow, cedar wood or ixtele, a | | | | The word "equipale" is from Nautl, the Aztec |
| derivative of the cactus. Whatever the | | | | language, and the chair is occasionally called |
| combination, they are woven together with | | | | "Montezuma's Chair" to try and establish its' |
| natural fibers. Throughout all of Mexico, equipale is | | | | antiquity. Although ancient in origin, Equipale |
| considered an important part of Mexican culture. | | | | Mexican Furniture has become popular recently. In |
| A little less than an hour away from Guadalajara, | | | | the 1920's and 1930's it started to become |
| is the village of Zacoalco where over three | | | | fashionable in the Pacific seacoast resorts as |
| hundred families earn their livelihood from | | | | American tourists requested them. From this |
| producing these rustic cane and leather chairs. | | | | followed an export market that continues to |
| Mexican Equipale are still made in the traditional | | | | thrive. |
| manner and they can be tanned so that they are | | | | Equipale furniture includes pigskin chairs, tables, bar |
| made water proof and do not degrade in the | | | | chairs, bar tables, end tables, coffee tables, |
| heat. | | | | peacock chairs, child barrel chairs, square foot |
| The Equipale is a Mexican chair or table made of | | | | stools, rectangular tables, sofas and so much |
| wood, leather, maguey fiber and cane. It | | | | more. Please feel free to contact me whenever |
| combines these into a unique, comfortable seat. In | | | | you need or want and I would be more than |
| the United States, equipales are typically found in | | | | happy to help. |