Unlike the simple wooden chair in the painting, Nicola Bolla’s chair was made between 2006 and 2007 and was bedazzled with hundreds of Swarovski crystals.

A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum where the artwork is on display. The Palazzo, now used as an exhibition space by Edra, is a lesson in the history of art and design: The whole history.