Lustre bronze louis xiv biography
Lustre bronze louis xiv biography
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Louis XIV furniture
Furniture of Louis XIV of France
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 Boulle work. It was based on the use of marquetry, the inlay of pieces of ebony and other rare woods, a technique first used in Florence in the 15th century, which was refined and developed by Boulle and others working for the King.
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Furniture was inlaid with thin plaques of ebony, copper, mother of pearl, and exotic woods of different colors in elaborate designs.
New and often enduring types of furniture appeared; the commode, with two to four drawers, replaced the old coffre, or chest.
The canapé, or sofa, appeared, in the form of a combination of two or three armchairs. New kinds of