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2. French furniture - Wikipedia

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   In the metropolitan culture of France, French furniture, connoting Parisian furniture, embodies one of the mainstreams of design in the decorative arts of Europe, extending its influence from Spain to Sweden and Russia, from the late seventeenth century to the last craft traditions in workshops like Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, which came to an end only with the Second World War.

3. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   The importation of furniture into England from Flanders and Holland was so significant that a hundred years earlier a law was enacted forbidding the practice — nevertheless carved woodwork was one of the important articles of commerce with the Low Countries, and the country homes of England of this period were filled with articles of Dutch ...

4. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   For a quarter of a century, the furniture designs of the rocaille style was dominant, particularly under the influence of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), the Italian-born architect who became royal architect and designer of Louis XV, and the ornament designer Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754). Under their influence, straight lines disappeared ...

5. Louis XVI style - Wikipedia

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   Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign of Louis XVI (1774–1792), just before the French Revolution. It saw the final phase of the Baroque style as well as the birth of French Neoclassicism. The style was a reaction against the ...

6. Henry II style - Wikipedia

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   Much like Henri II buffets, French Renaissance wardrobes feature the rich sculptural ornamentation (niches, pediments, pilasters, caryatids, festoane) characteristic of much Renaissance furniture [1] The Henry II style was the chief artistic movement of the sixteenth century in France , part of Northern Mannerism .

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