Chest designed by Maria Faltaits-Mavriki

Wooden chest designed by Maria Faltaits-Mavriki, a sample from classes held at the woodcarving school she created in the 1930s-1940s on the premises of today’s museum. The works produced by the apprentices at this school were sent to Athens where they were sold through a retail showroom on Panepistimiou Street, set up by the Association of Greek Folk Art, whose founding members included Angeliki Hatzimichali and Antonis Benakis.  
Skyrian wood-carved furniture and decorations started becoming popular in upper class Athenian and other Greek homes in the 1920s. This trend was sparked by the exhibition of folk handicrafts organized during the Delphic festivals of 1927 and 1930 Angeliki Hatzimichali, the so called “mother of the Greek folklore movement”, and in close collaboration with Maria Faltaits-Mavriki. 
The American School of Archaeology decorated an entire room in the building of Plutarchou 9 in Kolonaki as a Skyrian house, and today, samples of Skyrian wood carvings can be seen at the Maximos Mansion (Presidential Mansion).