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2. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715–1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and asymmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Louis XIV style. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three distinct periods.

3. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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   Louis XIV furniture. Cabinet on a stand by André-Charles Boulle (1675–80). Oak veneered with pewter, brass, tortoise shell, horn, ebony, ivory, and wood marquetry; bronze mounts; figures of painted and gilded oak; drawers of snakewood (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with ...

4. Directoire style - Wikipedia

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   Directoire style (French pronunciation: [diʁɛktwaʁ] ⓘ) was a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design in France concurrent with the Directory (November 2, 1795–November 10, 1799), the later part of the French Revolution. The style uses Neoclassical architectural forms, minimal carving, planar expanses of ...

5. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles, Palace of Fontainebleau, the Tuileries Palace, and other royal residences.

6. Jean Henri Riesener - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of Jean-Henri Riesener, seated at one of his writing tables, by Antoine Vestier, 1786 (Musée de Versailles). Jean-Henri Riesener (German: Johann Heinrich Riesener; 4 July 1734 – 6 January 1806) [1] was a famous German ébéniste (cabinetmaker), working in Paris, whose work exemplified the early neoclassical "Louis XVI style".

7. French furniture - Wikipedia

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   Secrétaire à abattant by Jean-François Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris). French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities and towns many of which, like Lyon and Liège, retained cultural identities ...