Author: Roger de FélicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
French Furniture Under Louis XVI and the Empire
Author: Roger de FélicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
French Furniture from the Renaissance to the Empire Style
Author: Joseph AronsonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473357632
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This book contains a treatise on French furniture from the renaissance to the Empire style. A fascinating book full of detailed photographs and interesting information, this text will greatly to appeal to anyone with an interest in French furniture and is sure to be of considerable value to collectors of antiquarian furniture literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Introduction', 'French Renaissance', 'Provincial French', 'The Regal Age Of Louis XVI', 'Regency', 'France: After Louis XVI', 'The Classic Revival Under Louis XVI', and 'The Antique Empire Style'. We are proud to republish this antiquarian text now complete with a new introduction on the history of furniture.
François Linke, 1855-1946
Author: Christopher PaynePublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851494408
Category : Cabinetmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Francois Linke (1855-1946), born in Pankraz, Bohemia, is considered by many as the greatest Parisian cabinetmaker of his day, at a time when the worldwide influence of French fashion was at its height. His exquisitely finished, richly made furniture was produced for potentates and industrial magnates from Paris to New York, London to Buenos Aires, the Far East and the Cameroons. Astonishingly, at the age of seventy and during the depths of the Great Depression, he secured a series of commissions to furnish over one thousand pieces for the King of Egypt. The son of a subsistence gardener, Linke trained under the strict disciplines of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and as a young man, travelled penniless, on foot, via Vienna to Paris in 1876. There he married the daughter of a local innkeeper and started a business in the days before electricity and the motor car, a business that continued, despite the loss of his two sons, through two world wars and the invention of atomic power. His early work is not signed, but can be traced to the great houses such as the New York townhouse of Arabella Huntington. He then gambled all on the Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900 and was rewarded with not only a Gold Medal but also important private commissions that brought him both fame and fortune. The ancien regime has always been the greatest source of inspiration for artistic design in France and, influenced amongst others by the de Goncourt brothers, the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles were revived to wide popular appeal. During the Second Empire these styles were so eclectic that they became debased. Linke wanted to create a fresh new style and his association with the enigmatic sculptor Leon Message resulted in a highly original series of designs, based on the rococo style fused with the latest fashion in Paris, l'art nouveau. This style, known as le style Linke, was received with critical acclaim at the 1900 exhibition and remains popular today amongst the worldwide clientele for Linke's exquisitely made furniture. The book, with 140,000 words of text and over 700 unique photographs, many previously unpublished and drawn from Linke's own archive and private collections, has ten chapters showing the development of this exacting and prolific man's life work. It traces his early life and apprenticeship and his comfortable family life in Paris, culminating with the award of the Legion d'honneur. Appendices on Metalwork and Wood add to the technical expertise of this book, giving a unique insight into the workings of any designers recorded to date. 266 colour & 48 b/w illustrations
Furniture
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book lists
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
French and English Furniture
Author: Esther SingletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Taste and Power
Author: Leora AuslanderPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
French Furniture Under Louis XIV
Author: Roger de FélicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Manual of the Furniture Arts and Crafts
Author: Axel P. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
The Chintz Book
Author: MacIver PercivalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chintz
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description