Furniture Design Ideas

Around 1758 Poirier conceived the idea of applying Sevres porcelain plaques to furniture, for which he ordered the ebenisterie from В. V. R. B. or R. V. L. C. These were mainly small tables called chiffonnieres’ which could double up as table-cabarets or writing- tables. At least six examples by В. V. R. B. are […]

В. V. R. B.’s great speciality remained that of lac­quered furniture, particularly furniture decorated with panels of Japanese lacquer. This type of furniture was Japanese lacquer. (В. V. R. B. was the only maker, with Joseph Baumhauer and D. F.. to have used Japa­nese lacquer at that time, but there is no proof that Joseph […]

After 1740 В. V. R. B. revived the art of floral mar­quetry. which had gone out of fashion in France by 1700. The first pieces of furniture in floral marquetry supplied to the Garde-Meuble Royal were those de­livered by Hubert in 1745 for the Dauphin and Dau – phine at Versailles. They were almost all […]

BERNARD I. d. 1738; MASTER BEFORE 1722 BERNARD II KNOWN AS В. V. R B.. AFTER 1696-c. 1766. MAS TER BEFORE 1730; BERNARD III. c. 1731-1800 N ow regarded as the greatest ebeniste of the reign of Louis XV. В. V. R. B. was identified only in 1957 by J-P. Baroli. who discovered that the […]

MASTER 1748: ACTIVE UNTIL 1783 T he date of birth of Adrien I>elorme is unknown. He belonged to a family of Parisian ebenistes. vvho added a second name, de Lorme or Delorme, to their surname of Faizelot. He was the oldest son of Francois Faizelot-Delorme (1691-1768). who was settled in the rue Tiquetonne and specialized […]

EBI-N1STE ACTIVE с. 1740-50 T he stamp ‘D. F.’ is found on a certain number of lacquer commodes, many of them with mounts struck with the crowned ’C which dates them between 1745 and 1750 (see Appendix). This stylistically homogeneous group is mainly com­posed of commodes in either Japanese or Chinese lac­quer. with the same […]

Although Dubois’ production is large and very di­verse. certain elements of the marquetry and mounts are repeated. As with В. V. R. B., Joseph and Lher – mite, Dubois made marquetry in bois de bout with flowers in kingwood on a bois satine ground and the designs of his marquetry are very distinctive. They are […]

Virtually no information can be gleaned about Dubois’ clientele from the records. We only know that he did not supply the royal family. The only piece that can be identified precisely is the celebrated encoignure in the I Paul Getty Museum. We now know that it was made in about 1745 after a drawing executed […]

1694-1763; MASTER 1742 J acques Dubois was born on 8 April 1694 in Pon – toise. He was related through his mother to an im­portant family of ebenistes. as Stephane Boiron has discovered. His mother, nee Marguerite Mon – tigny (great-aunt of Philippe-Claude Montigny), was the widow of Nicolas Gerard, by whom she had a […]

PI ERR К I. b. c. 1670 PIERRE 11. 1701-58; MARCHAND-EBENISTE PIERRE III. 1733-75; MASTER 1761; MARCHAND-EBENISTE T he Migeon family were one of the important dynasties of Parisian Protestant ebenistes. consisting of three generations all with the same Christian name. ‘Pierre’, who succeeded each other at the same address in the Faubourg Saint – […]