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The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle, a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...
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Although Boulle provided quite a few pieces of furniture for the royal household, only two items intended specifically for Louis XIV have been identified: a pair of commodes made between 1708 and 1709 for the king’s bedroom at the Grand Trianon and now exhibited at the Château de Versailles.
French Decorative Arts during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715) French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Case Furniture; Furnishings during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715) The Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century; Interior Design in England, 1600–1800; Abraham and David Roentgen; American Rococo
French, Paris. ca. 1690–1710. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 522. In the most recent catalogue of the furniture at Versailles, [1] where two related armchairs à châssis (with drop-in seats) are on display in the refurbished bedroom of Louis XIV, this extraordinary chair model was described as "to be dated probably to the second ...
Furnishing the royal residences. Throughout the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI, the French art of living developed and the royal residences were transformed accordingly. The Court of Louis XIV was officially established at Versailles in 1682, but the Sun King continued to use his palaces in Fontainebleau, Compiègne and Marly – and wherever ...
Louis XIV Tables. LOUIS XIV STYLE. As opposed to the styles that would follow from the other 18th-century French kings, Louis XV and Louis XVI, antique Louis XIV furniture is rigid and imposing. It expresses opulence — even its armchairs, with their upright backs, straight legs and lavish ornamentation, look like thrones.
