At the Pitti Palace: The "Very Best" of the King's Furniture

One cabinet in this room is a miniature of the building around it: a stipo that reproduces Pitti Palace to scale. It is one of 16 pieces of royal furniture covering three dynasties, Medici, Lorraine and Savoy, across the 17th to 19th centuries.

The Niche Room, on the first floor of the Palatine Gallery, arranges them in chronological order. Gemstone inlay from the Uffizi's grand ducal workshops gives way to Lorraine lacquers and curving lines, then Napoleon's sister Elisa Baciocchi's Empire style, then Savoy revivals. Giovanni Socci's mechanical writing desk is here. A desk with a closing mechanism is the 17th-century answer to the tab you shut when your boss walks past.

It is one room, so it works as a stop within a Palatine Gallery visit. A standard museum ticket covers it. Director Simone Verde says the section makes the royal palace more legible to visitors. It is open until 31 December 2026.