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The form of the bed and its covering evolved under Louis XV. Early beds had four posts and a canopy suspended from a rectangular form on top. Under Louis XV, the Lit à la polonaise appeared, with a canopy suspended from a crownlike structure; and the Lit à la Duchesse, where the canopy was supported only from one end. The bed was usually ...
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 ...
Armchairs appeared with high backs, made with pieces of bois tourné, cut in a spiral form. [ 2 ] The second period, from 1660 to about 1690, was the beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV; much of the furniture of this period was made for the decoration of the grand new halls of the Palace of Versailles designed by Louis Le Vau and then ...
[2] [1] The bed was dismantled and for a while lay in the hotel car park before being collected by the auctioneers. It was described in the auction catalogue as "profusely carved Victorian four poster bed with armorial shields". [2] Ian Coulson, an antique bed restorer from Humshaugh, bought the bed at the on-line auction for £2,200. [2] [3]
Author Lisa See, right, and her cousin Leslee See Leong in their great-grandfather's antique store, F. Suie One Co. An antique marriage bed that See remembers from the store inspired her latest ...
A curtained bed is a luxury bed with curtains. A daybed is a couch that is used as a seat by day and as a bed by night. Usually it has pop up trundle which is used as bed in the night. A futon is a traditional style of Japanese bed using a mattress on a wooden frame. Futons are also available in a larger Western style which can fold halfway for ...