Posts Tagged ‘Marie Antoinette’

French Louis XVI Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Louis XVI Style Furniture
The Louis XVI style, which represented the bentwood chair marks triumph of the leopold stickley coffee table Neo-classical over the antique yew desks Rococo, can be divided into two phases, from about 1770 to 1780 and about 1780 to 1795. The first phase, which was well established
before Louis [...]

Antique 18th Century Furniture

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

XVII Century Furniture
Antique 18th century furniture is today one of the english oak carved leg table most popular antiques among collectors.
By 1700 foreign influence was strong, although Italian Rococo antique furniture was not as varied, comfortable, or well-constructed as that produced in England or France. Marquetry work was especially skilled in [...]