Jun 27, 2009

Antique Furniture Regal Chair


Antique French Furniture Regal Chair


This Antique Furniture regal armchair, with its golden crown embossed on supple natural leather, presents a majestic image. Chrome nail heads and aged-wood patina.

Jun 26, 2009

Reproduction Chair created for the display window of a great chocolatier


Antique Reproduction Chair created for the display window of a great chocolatier


A tempting invitation to the gourmet, this antique furniture reproduction chair was created for the display window of a great chocolatier and tickles your sweet tooth: dozens of candies, ganaches, and pralines, made one by one, then wrapped and glued with care. The seat itself is transformed into a pretty package. A feast for the eyes!

Jun 23, 2009

Antique French Cabinet Louis XV Style





Antique French Cabinet Louis XV Style Stamped by Joseph Baumhauer


French, Paris, about 1765

This Antique French Cabinet is made from Oak veneered with ebony, tulipwood, amaranth and Japanese cedar; kijimaki-e lacquer panels; gilt bronze; yellow jasper top

Dimensions : 11 1/4 in. x 11 3/8 in. x 11 1/8 in.


The combination of rare and expensive materials used on this Louis XV cabinet indicates that it was a particularly expensive commission. The four Japanese lacquer panels date from the mid- to late 1600s and were created with a technique known as kijimaki-e. For this type of lacquer, artisans sanded plain wood to heighten its strong grain and used it as the background of each panel. They then added the scenic elements of landscape, plants, and animals in raised lacquer. Although this technique was common in Japan, such large panels were rarely incorporated into Antique French eighteenth-century furniture. see also louis XVI Secretary as and example of using this type of antiquing technique.

Heavy Ionic pilasters, whose copper-filled flutes give an added rich color and contrast to the gilt-bronze mounts, flank the panels. Yellow jasper, a semiprecious stone, rather than the usual marble, forms the top.

Jun 22, 2009

Louis XV Table By André-Charles Boulle



Antique Louis XV Table By André-Charles Boulle


French, Paris, about 1680

This Antique Furniture Table is made from Oak veneered with ebony, tortoiseshell, pewter, brass, ivory, horn, various stained and natural woods; gilt bronze mounts
Dimensions : H: 8 1/4 in. x W: 9 7/8 in. x D: 2 in.

Because the recessed top of this antique reproduction table is removable, the table may also have been used as a stand for a cabinet. With naturalistic flowers and birds, the table's wood marquetry is of extremely high quality and was probably made by the royal cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle. The Antique table's design and the combination of marquetry made of wood and marquetry in tortoiseshell, pewter, brass, and ebony point to Boulle's particular specialties. The design of the table's border is the same as that on two jewel coffers made by Boulle.

Jun 17, 2009

Louis XVI Dining Room Table


Antique French Louis XVI Dining room table


Dimensions: 76 H * 380 L * 130 W cm + 2 extensions 50 cm

Antique Dining room table made to link up with the Rhine Valley chair and carver.

This Antique Furniture Reproduction Table top in walnut parquet.

Base in oak.

Jun 13, 2009

Directoire Pedestal Table


Antique Direcotire Pedestal Table


Directoire Style Pedestal Table

Carrying on from the Louis XVI style , but also inspired by the Etruscans and Romans; starting around 1787, but flourishing in its own right under the French Revolution, thanks to the painter David.

This style ended with the Consulate and Empire styles, inspired by the Romans and then by ancient Egypt.

Directoire Style Furniture
Directoire Chaise Longue
Jacob Chair
Directoire Lyre Armchair
Directoire Style Bed

Directoire Bench "Banquette"
Directoire Style armchair

Jun 10, 2009

Biedermeier Chair


Antique Biedermeier chair


Austria, circa 1830.

Dimensions : 91 H x 47 W x 44 D cm.

Original : private collection, Austria.

The eye is first attracted by pure and simple lines, characterizing the sober style of a vigorous chair having lost the imperial grandeur but still offering a more cheerful neo-classicism. The simple, yet strong, lines of the Antique chair bind it to the antique European style chairs taste of the beginning of the XIX th century and reveal a modern character perfectly adapted to our days please , Find cheap deals on reproductions of antique French, Italian, Spanish and other varieties of vintage Chandeliers in Reproduction Antique Chandeliers.

Antique Louis XVI Table


Antique Small Louis XVI Weisweiler table


Louis XVI period

Stamped A. Weisweiler

Dimensions: 77 H * 84 W * 33 D cm


The top has spanish multi-coloured marble set into it. The removable legs are octogonal and tapered, with faux pewter fluting. The ornementation of brass moulding lends an extreme lightness and finesse to this delightful piece of furniture.

This rare little rectangular antique louis XVI table was originally made in ebony.

The Louis XVI table design, a well-knowned onein the work of Adam Weisweiler, who was admitted as a Master Craftsman in 1778, was part of the former Wrightsmann collection or the former Givenchy collection.

It usually has spindled feet togethet with a very characteristic spacer. It is very difficult to say in this case if this spacer bar is missing or if it never existed, which is quite likely given the small dimensions of this Antique table.

Jun 6, 2009

Louis XV Romance Chair


Reproduction Louis XV Romance Chair


Hundreds of handmade fabric petals embroidered with pearls create the windblown flowers that swirl over this chair.

Jun 5, 2009

Louis XV Caned Cabriolet Chair


Antique Louis XV Caned Cabriolet Chair


Circa , 1755

Dimensions: 96 H * 54 W * 46 D cm

Seat height: 45 cm

Original: Private Collection - Gent

Description:

a verve in design of antique chairs is found and a nervosity of the curves and counter curves proper to Cresson or even of the fine and detained production of certain Lyonese cabinet makers such as François Canot (born in Paris) or the inspiration of certain Parisian works that we find with Reuze, Nadal, Pierre Rémy, Lelarge , Lebas or other inspired authors.

This louis xv chair designs difference between Lyon and Paris is not so clear here, since we have the best of two schools ( Caned Cabriolet Chair ) , find more antique furniture information in antique furniture blog

Remarkable is amoung others the back which has a surprising rhythm marked by a generous dynamism of curves punctuated by gracefull sculpting with fine designs and balanced lay-out that support the purpose without distraction.

Jun 1, 2009

Antique Large Armchair of Early Louis XV Era



Antique Large armchair of the early Louis XV era


Dimensions: 108 H * 78 W * 63 D cm

Seat height: 45 cm

Original: Private collection in Gent

This large Louis XV armchair with a vast comfort and inventive forms dates of approximately 1740-45, and seems destined to offer protection against drafts and heat of a blazing fire.

Meanwhile only the top of the armrests of this antique louis XV Armchair present sidepanels with harmonious designs and counter curves, while the line of the rails also corresponds to this repertory that we even find on the top of the back.

The profile breaks in a bended protrusion that finds its rhythm in the bended protrusion of the counter curves. This antique french furniture originality can also be found in the flawless and arched curves at the bottom of the legs at european reproduction furniture .

The very discrete and chisseled sculpting is the organ point that makes this a very high quality antique Louis XV reproduction armchair.

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