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  2. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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    The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle, a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...

  3. 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.

  4. Daniel Marot - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Marot or Daniel Marot the Elder (1661–1752 [1]) was a French-born Dutch architect, furniture designer and engraver [2] at the forefront of the classicizing Late Baroque Louis XIV style. He worked for a long time in England and the Dutch Republic , where he was naturalised in 1709.

  5. French porcelain - Wikipedia

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    As Mark Girouard writes, "opulence was the key-note of this" [22] and thus "eighteenth-century French furniture, porcelain and bronzes of superb quality combined" [22] dominated this specific 19th-century collection. Ferdinand's first purchase of Sèvres is a poignant narrative at Waddesdon manor, in which at 21 years old, he treated himself to ...

  6. 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.

  7. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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    With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...