Furniture Design Ideas

Ever since the eighteenth century very few works by Latz have been in France, and few have a French provenance: only the Wildenstein encoignures (130) and the Partridge examples which came respectively from the Chateaux d’Eu and d’Anet and belonged to the Due de Penthievre. probably a client of Latz in about 1750. Important pieces […]

Latz’s work is in the full rococo style, characterized by free-moving forms of an exaggerated plasticity: the commodes as well as the encoignures are bombe on all sides. The restless lines arc emphasized by highly con­torted bronze mounts, by curves and countercurves clashing one against another. These mounts some­times evoke palm trees or branches, rockwork […]

c. 1691-1754; ACTIVE 1719-54; EBENISTE PRIVILEGE DU ROI BEFORE 1741 N ow recognized as one of the great ebenistes working in the Louis XV style. Jean-Pierre Latz is one of the most spectacular dis­coveries made in the last twenty years by Henry Hawley. Borne. 1691 near Cologne. Jean-Pierre Latz settled in Paris from 1719 as […]

c. 1682-1746; MASTER 1708; SUPPLIER (WITH HIS SON) OF THE GARDE-MEUBLE ROYAL 1726-51 S on of a cobbler established in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and descended from a family from Burgundy. Antoine-Robert Gaudreaus was bom in about 1682. After an apprenticeship of three years, from 1699 to 1702. he began to work inde­pendently before gaining his […]

MASTER 1723; ДСП VE 1724-50 C ard became a master on 16 February 1723 by the purchase of one of the eight masterships created at the coronation of Louis XV. His stamp is found on a wide variety of furniture: a bureau plat in amaranth in the Bensimon Collection, very close to the work of […]

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1685-1768; MARCMAND-EBENISTE ANDSCULPTEUR T he active career of Charles Cressent spans the years between 1719 and 1757. He is certainly the ebeniste whose work is most representa­tive of the Regcnce style, so much so that there is a tendency for all fine furniture of that period to be automatically attributed to him. to the detriment […]

ANONYMOUS EBENISTE; ACTIVE 173(K A n entire group of furniture, among the most beautiful of the Regence, is still completely anonymous. None of these pieces is stamped or marked in any way. and it has not Ixen possible yet to identify them from archival documents. Often attributed for no convincing reason to Cressent or Gaudreaus. […]

c. 1675-1732; LOU1S-SIMON PA1NSUN. 1700-BEFORE 1748 D oirat (E.) has the distinction of being the only important ebeniste of the Regence who stamped his work, there being no stamped pieces by Cressent or Gaudreaus recorded. Thus the presence of a stamp facilitates the definition of a homogeneous output; this consisted almost entirely of commodes in […]

BEFORE 1700-1748 T he stamp ‘F. L.’ stands for Frangois Lieutaud. the grandfather of Balthazar Lieutaud. Born in Marseille. Frangois Lieutaud became a master ebeniste towards the end of the seventeenth century. From his marriage with Catherine Autran he had a son. Charles Lieutaud, who also became an ebe­niste. settling in Paris where he married […]