THE PRICE OF FURNITURE
T he received notion that furniture was very expensive in the eighteenth century needs to be seriously reconsidered. First, new and second-hand furniture (called ’de hazard’ in the language of …
FOREIGN CLIENTELE
he supremacy of French furniture in our period was gener lesser extent in Italy and England. The Faubourg Saint - Antoine exported some of its finest furniture, and advertisements by …
THE FRENCH CLIENTELE
T he factors that made Paris the capital of commerce for luxury goods in the eighteenth century are well known. France was then the richest country in Europe, with the …
THE GUILD OF MENU1SIERS
D uring the seventeenth century and even more so during the eighteenth, the trades involved in the making of articles of wood in France, the m£tiers du bois. were strictly …
FRENCH FURNITURE MAKERS
The title of this work calls for preliminary comment. A good third of the French ebenistes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were first or second generation immigrants. A glance …
