Furniture Design Ideas

1746-1809 A ndre-Louis Gilbert became a master in 1774 after an apprenticeship under L.-N. Malle, one of the principal marquetry-makers in Paris. He then settled first in the rue Traversiere. then in 1785 in the Grand-Rue du Faubourg Saint – Antoine and was active until 1789. Like his former master he specialized in marquetry pieces […]

1734-1803; MASTER 1764 H aving first worked as an independant artisan in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Birckle became a master in 1764. Established in the rue Saint-Nicolas. in 1785 he began working for the Garde-Meuble Royal, supplying it with regular con­signments of simple furniture. In January of 1787 he supplied for the Comtesse de Provence at […]

c. 1730-90: MASTER 1705 According to Salverte, Pierre Pioniez appeared in about 1758 as a privileged artisan in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. and moved, after he became a master in 1765, to a workshop in the rue Michel-le-Comte in the Marais where he would remain for the rest of his life. The majority of furni­ture bearing […]

MASTER 1773 Born around 1735. Topino worked for a long time as an independent craftsman before being received master in 1773. Settled in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, he specialized in pieces of light furniture, small tables, bonheurs-du-jour and chiffonnieres. and perfected a type of bonheur-du- jour of oval form for which he seems to have […]

1721-98; MASTER 1767 O ne of the most important ebenistes of his time, Etienne Levasseur is also one of the least known. We know nothing of his forma­tive years apart from the assertion made by his grand­son in an advertisement in the Bazar parisien in 1822 that he was trained by Boulle. This is certainly […]

same capitals of laurel festoons. Another scries of smaller desks with marquetry with gilt-bronze drapery motifs at the corners some­times bears Montigny’s stamp, and sometimes that of Dubois, for whom Montigny must have worked. As a number of other pieces bear both their stamps it seems that they were commissioned by or sold to Dubois […]

B orn in Paris, Philippe-Claude Montigny was the son of Louis Montigny. cbeniste and privi­leged artisan in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. He became a master in 1766 aged thirty-two and took over his father’s workshop in the Cour de la Juiverie at the foot of the Bastille, where he remained for the rest of his life. […]

Rene Dubois used the same stamp as his father. I DUBOIS’, which makes the attribution of certain pieces problematic. But as Jacques IXilwis died in 1763 (and despite the fact that the inventory after his death men­tions several pieces a la grecque’), it is reasonable to attribute the furniture in rococo taste to the father. […]

1737-99; MASTER 1755 J acques Dubois’ two sons, Louis (bom in 1732) and Rene (born in 1737), both qualified as master eb^nistes in 1755. The elder son was quick to change profession, becoming a master stove – modeller. He was also accepted as a member of the Academy of Saint-Luc. On the death of Jacques […]

Nicolas Petit started as an ebeniste and furni­ture-seller in the rue du Faubourg-Saint – Antoine in an establishment called Vu Norn de Jesus’. In 1758 he married Marie-Magdeieine Dig – noir who died in 1765. The inventory taken after her death descrites 8 work-benches, denoting an import – ant activity, but with few pieces of […]