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Antique Neo-Renaissance style dining room made out of carved walnut with grotesques and fantastics animals decor

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Antique Neo-Renaissance style dining room made out of carved walnut with grotesques and fantastics animals decor

This neo-Renaissance dining room includes: - A carved walnut dresser with grotesques. H: 181.5 cm; W: 162.5 cm; D: 65.5 cm (71.5 x 64 x 25.9 in) - A carved walnut table with grotesques and leafy designs. H: 76 cm; W: 170 cm; D: 90 cm (30 x 67 x 35.4 in) - 6 carved walnut chairs with padding, 5 with white and green stripes and 1 mint green, with two different figures topping each chair. H: 101.5 cm; W: 51.5 cm; D: 44.5 cm (40 x 20.3 x 17.5 in). This dining room corresponds to the Neo-Renaissance style . The 19th century is known as the century of “eclecticism” in decorative arts, during which artistic styles from past centuries were rediscovered and mixed together to create original objects, furnishings, and monuments. Certain styles are particularly historicist, like the “neo-Gothic” style, the “neoclassical” style, and the “neo-Renaissance” style. The Paris Hôtel de Ville (town hall) is a prime example of French neo-Renaissance architecture. Grotesques and mythical creatures are typical Renaissance motifs. The table and chairs have nicely carved, straight legs and an H-shaped leg structure, which was invented during the Renaissance. The many straight lines and angles are typical of the “classicist” Renaissance. The caryatids on the dresser topped with ionic capitals and the arcades underneath the table also refer to the Ancient elements reused during the Renaissance. The two bodies dresser almost looks like two trunks – which may have been how the first “buffets” were created at the beginning of the Renaissance. Moreover, the dresser's multiple drawers give it a typical Renaissance-style structure.

Dimensions:
Width: 163 cm
Height: 182 cm
Depth: 66 cm

Louis MAJORELLE (attr.to), Tea table with a Vernis Martin decoration, circa 1880-1890

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Louis MAJORELLE (attr.to), Tea table with a Vernis Martin decoration, circa 1880-1890

Showing a classical shape for this type of saloon furnishings, the great originality of this table is in its decoration, made out of Vernis Martin. This technic was invented in the 18th century by the Martin brothers, who wanted to imitate the Japanese and Chinese lacquers, at a time when these were really rare in Occident. After a relative disinterest during the first half of the 19th century, the technic went fashionable again, with the advent of the Far East trend and the furniture by Louis Majorelle (1859-1926). Apart from the lacquer, the decorative patterns adorning the two boards are alluding to the Chinese and Japanese repertoire : on the upper board, a bird is taking off holding in its beak an insect in a lake background with reeds and beautiful flowers. The lower board is decorated in the same spirit, with also a lake background in which we can see a flying wader with a tit. Louis Majorelle was born in 1859. At this time, his father was already a ceramicist and a maker for lacquered furniture. His business consisted in adorning furniture in the technic of Vernis Martin and to inspire himself from Far East motifs. The masterpiece by Auguste Majorelle is a grand piano, now owned by the Musée de l’Ecole in Nancy. Made by the Mangeot Company from Nancy, this grand piano was exhibited at the 1878 World’s Fair. Auguste Majorelle died soon after, and his son, Louis, perpetuated his work, creating lacquered, Japanese-inspired furniture, some exhibited at the 1889 World’s Fair.

Dimensions:
Width: 85 cm
Height: 82 cm
Depth: 57 cm

Louis XVI style fireplace molded in white-veined green Campan marble

Dimensions:
Width: 135 cm
Height: 104 cm
Depth: 65 cm
Inner width: 92 cm
Inner height: 80 cm