Furniture Design Ideas

Born in 1724, this eldest son of Mathieu-Criard became a master on 31 July 1749. On 5 August 1748 he married Marie-Suzannc Chevallier. daughter of the ebeniste Jean-Mathieu Chevallier and niece of the ebenistes Charles Chevallier and Jean-Charles Sau – nier. Young Criard received a portion of 6.000 livres from his parents while his bride […]

MATHIEU. c. 1689-1787; MASTER 1738 ANTOINE-MATHIEU. 1724-87; MASTER 1749SEBASTIEN-MATHIEU. 1732-%; MARCHAND-MERCIER 1762 Bom c. 1689. Mathieu was the son of ‘Jean Criard, lx>urgeois from the town of Brussels’. We know nothing of his youth, his training, or when he settled in Paris. The first record of Criard is his marriage contract with Jacqueline Godelart on […]

Y121-C. 17%; MARCHAND-6b£NISTE PRIVIITGIE I)U ROI 1756 P ierre Macret never became a master, receiving, however, in 1756 the warrant of ‘marchand – ebeniste privilegie du roi suivant la cour’ in suc­cession to Latz’s widow. At the beginning of his career he supplied pieces to Lazare Duvaux (who in 1758 owed 1.169 livres to him) […]

Joubert’s work is difficult to define. He seems to have made very little use of the stamp, from the use of which he was exempt on becoming ’£b£niste du roi’ from 1763. In theory we should study his production from the furniture he supplied to the Garde-Meuble Royal. However, these pieces, made for the Crown […]

1689-1775; SUPPLIER OF THE GARDE-MEUBLE ROYAL 1751-75; MARCHAND-EBfrsIlSTE B om into a family of Parisian menuisiers settled in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Gilles was the son of Pierre Joubert and Therese Delanois. In 1702, at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to Pierre Dasneau, marqueteur in the Faubourg Saint – Antoine, for two and a […]

c. 1697-after 1757; MASTER BEFORE 1738 N icolas-Jean Marchand, born c. 1697. became a master before 1738. Settled in the rue Saint – Nicolas in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, he belonged to a family of casters, both his brother Pierre Marchand and the latter’s son being master casters. Nicolas-Jean seems to have specialized in lacquer fur­niture: […]

1723-82. MASTER 1745; M ARCH AND – ЁВЁМЭТЕ P ierre was the son of a journeyman ebeniste, Michel Roussel and of Barbe Dulin. His three brothers. Jacques. Michel and Louis, all became menuisiers. At the age of twenty Pierre Rous­sel married Marie-Antoinette Fontaine and became a master two years later. He settled in the Faubourg […]

FRANQOIS. 1694-1770. FRANQOIS-ANTOINE. MASTER 1770 I196J Commode in amaranth and bois saline stamped F. M. D., с. 1730, showing a marked separation between the upper and lower tiers of drawers. (Private collectionі 1197} Commode stamped F. A. Mondon, с. 1770, with geometric marquetry; an interesting example of the Creek style’ combining rococo forms with gilt […]

Established in the rue dc Charenton. opposite the Convent of the English Sisters, Martin – Etienne Lhermite carried out many commis­sions for his fellow ebeniste Migeon, to whom he sup­plied among other pieces, desks ‘veneered in tulipwood with a "point de Hongrie” pattern’ and a bedside table en cabaret with floral marquetry. He ex­ecuted marquetry […]

G ermain Landrin spent ail his life in the Fau­bourg Saint-Antoine, first in the Grand-Rue and then the rue de Charonne. He did much work for his fellow ebeniste Pierre II Migeon, and was one of his main suppliers. Between 1742 and 1751 he supplied 85,000 livres’ worth of furniture to him, indi­cating a large […]