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2. Furniture Brands International - Wikipedia

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   Analyst Budd Bugatch of Raymond James & Associates compared Furniture Brands board members to the pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm. [28] On September 9, 2013, Furniture Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company planned to sell all businesses other than Lane Furniture to a group managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP. [29]

3. 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.

4. Cabriolet (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A cabriolet armchair is a Louis XV style chair with its armrests open and elevated from the seat, sculpted independently of the armchair, and making the chair light and easy to move—unlike the bergère, a similar style of chair that has enclosed, upholstered sides. The fauteuil en cabriolet with a concave back and overstuffed seat cushion is ...

5. 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 ...

6. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   Louis XV furniture was designed not for the vast palace state rooms of the Versailles of Louis XIV, but for the smaller, more intimate salons created by Louis XV and by his mistresses, Madame de Pompadour and Madame DuBarry. It included several new types of furniture, including the commode and the chiffonier, and many pieces, particularly ...

7. Georges Jacob - Wikipedia

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   Georges Jacob in 1793. Georges Jacob (6 July 1739 – 5 July 1814) was one of the two most prominent Parisian master menuisiers.He produced carved, painted and gilded beds and seat furniture and upholstery work for the French royal châteaux, in the Neoclassical style that is associated with Louis XVI furniture.