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Antique French Chairs ~ The Pride of Owning French Furniture

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Pride of Owning French Furniture, Author: Ian Perryment -The Regency style is very much a transitory period in which pieces from the Louis XIV period were transformed by the use of bronze fittings rather than reinvented. This period refined Louis XIV designs to be more practical and comfortable for everyday use. The Duke of Orleans introduced an era of lighter, more graceful French furniture. The beginnings of the Louis XV style start here, with the flowing curves, scallop shell and acanthus leaf we associate with the Louis XV Rococo style becoming prominent.

Nowadays, Regency chairs are more fashionable than ever. They look fabulous in living-rooms and bedrooms. They are comfortable, yet elegant.

Regarded by many as the Golden Age of French furniture, Louis XV’s reign was a time of peace and prosperity, and soon became one of the greatest periods in French furniture design: Rococo style.

It was frivolous, frothy and decadent, just like the King Louis XV and his official mistress Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, also known as Madame de Pompadour. The Parisian aristocracy embraced new furniture items, such as the chaise longue and the “bergere chair”. Frames were usually gilded or painted. The rococo style featured love, music and nature-inspired motifs and themes, including shells, waves, birds, foliage, vines, flowers, seaweed, rocks and serpents.

Anybody who is passionate about French furniture will have a Louis XV chair on top of their style list. Moreover, nowadays, there are fantastic Louis XV reproduction chairs. You will be able to find them in different finishes and colours. You could even break the rules and have yours re-upholstered with a vibrant and modern fabric: classic with a twist. Whether you go for a classic look or a contemporary one, a Louis XV chair is the must have piece in the living-room, a statement item with lasting appeal. Bergere chairs and chaises longues are also incredibly popular these days.

For the bedroom, a Rococo style bed is the dream of every girl. It’s beautiful and frivolous, exactly what you want in a bedroom! There is no doubt our homes wouldn’t look the same if Rococo style has never existed!

When Rococo began to be considered too frivolous, a classical revival was inspired by the discovery of Pompeii in 1748 – the resulting style became known as neo-classicism or the classical revival. Designers also looked back to the more architectural French furniture of the Louis XIV period.

Gilded wood became popular again, and was used for ceremonial chairs and mirrors.

In our modern homes, a gilded mirror is the perfect focal point for a living room, above a fireplace or a console table. There are so many manufacturers of Baroque, Rococo and Neo-classical style mirrors that you will be spoiled for choice. They are elegant and gorgeous, and a mirror is always a great way to add depth and light into a room.

So why are we crazy for French furniture? Furnishing our homes with French furniture brings us back to those times of royalty and beauty, decadence and glamour. Our lives are complicated; we have stressful jobs and hardly any time for ourselves. That’s why a beautiful and elegant home, full of stylish French furniture can bring a bit of joy and glamour to our existence!

About the Author:
Ivory Pearl Interiors is an online shop that sells French furniture and home accessories. Explore this adorable yet affordable range of painted furniture, delightful chandeliers and mirrors, shabby chic furniture and mirrored furniture. You will fall in love with this fabulous range. For More Information Visit: - http://www.ivorypearlinteriors.com/

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French Settees~ Know Your Sofas

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Know Your Sofas, By Ron Jordan - A sofa is a word adapted into English from Arabic, by way of Aramaic. These days it refers to any couch, though originally it referred only to the luxuriously cushioned seats of esteemed guests in the royal palaces of Arabia. Sofas are always upholstered and designed for reclining and relaxation. A love seat or loveseat is a small, compact couch that seats two. Small couches have existed at least as long as large ones, but the love seat, as we know it, was designed in the 1700's to seat one woman wearing a wide bustle. As time passed, the little couches became known as intimate rendezvous spots for lovers (these were the days of Casanova, remember). Scandalous! Responding to this, furniture designers crafted love seats as two connected chairs in an S-shape, with the two sitters facing in opposite directions. This separated the couple’s bodies, though they were still able to steal kisses if they wished.

The S-shaped love seat remains a stylishly old-school choice, though its use has diminished due to its large space requirements. The small couch-style love seat is more common, though, and is now a standard feature in modern living room sets. Casanova would be proud.

A davenport originally referred only to a series of sofas produced by the A.H. Davenport Company of Boston in the mid-1800's. Due to that company’s success in America, the term has become synonymous with sofas in a large part of the modern United States, especially in the Midwest. Original Davenport Company sofas are only found at antique auctions, but if you call any couch by that name, it’s okay.

A settee has recently come to mean any kind of couch, but the name originally applied only to double-seater benches with wooden backs and arms, such as those you might find on a porch or in a hallway. On settees, upholstery can vary; most modern settees are as cushioned as any couch, but unlike a couch, some styles of settees feature minimal or absent upholstery.

The word settee is thought to be a variation on settle, though they are two different things. A settle is a large, heavy wooden-backed bench of a style used in European castle halls since medieval times. A settle is typically made entirely of wood, devoid of upholstery, and thick and heavy thanks to its development history (they were originally made from wooden chests). Ah, the luxurious castle life.

A chaise lounge is an upholstered couch designed like a very long-seated chair which you can stretch your legs on. It comes from the phrase ‘chaise longue’, which simply means ‘long couch’ in French. This style of sofa has a long history in Europe and was a standard feature in the manor houses of the aristocracy. A chaise lounge is typically thought of as a ritzy Rococo-style design, but these days they are available in a huge variety of styles, from historical to ultra-modern.

In Victorian England, a chaise lounge was often called a fainting couch. These items were installed in wealthy houses for aristocratic women to collapse on, thanks to the stress put on their bodies by the too-tight corsets of the time. No kidding.

This bizarre trend has not survived into modern times, thank goodness, but the name lives on. Originally, fainting couches were simply chaise lounges, though some featured a non-upholstered foot section which made them more similar to daybeds. As time has passed, the phrase ‘fainting couch’ has expanded to encompass a variety of chaise lounges and beds with raised headspace. It’s more a colloquial term now, since not many chaise lounge manufacturers include “great for collapsing unconscious upon” in their ad copy.

There are many more furniture terms out there that we haven’t covered -- look for a Know Your Sofas, Part 2 soon. In the meantime, for more information and a great variety of sofas, davenports, settees and lounges, check out Every Sofa.Com, a proud part of the Cymax Stores Inc. network of online furniture retailers.

Ron Jordan is a marketing associate for Cymax Stores Inc, a premiere online furniture distribution company.

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French Wing Chairs

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Wing chairs first appeared in the late 17th Century. Designed to trap the heat from a fireplace in historic times, these chairs were beautiful but not always functional. Wing chairs were built tall to provide a comfortable protection from cold drafts, especially on chilly nights during the winter. Wing chairs are now very much back in style, and hopefully this article will give you some great ideas for how you can use them.

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French Louis XV Chair

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Antique Reproductions are very hard to find, but it seems like Ebay has pulled together stock from around the world, so that particular chair that you are looking for is within reach. The Louis XV chairs without the cushions are relitivly easy to upholster yourself. All you need is a T50 Staple Gun from Home Depot and upholstery nails. The trick to upholstery is to pull your fabric tight. With these chairs, you have access to all the areas you need to tack down, which makes it a very easy fix. The Louis XV Chair is quite a extravagent chair, with a refined style that would work with any fabric, abstract, bold colors, or traditional fabrics. With the carved looks and the rounded features, it surely can stand alone and be the feature of the room in an understated way. These XV chairs are the perfect accent chair for your hallway..... or that small wall that needs filling. With low shipping costs, or free shipping with some sellers, it saves time than checking out every garage sale for the summer.

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French Louis XV Chair

Baroque French Louis XV Chairs

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The Baroque style developed in the 1620s which appeared very ornate, with heavy carving, and extended into the 17th century. Toward the end of the 17th century, baroque furniture tended to become simpler and the use of ornament was somewhat refined and simpler. There are varied styles of baroque as the elements of the french styles gradually work their way down from excessively ornate to simpler looks. Common Baroque chairs were found highly ornate, with velvet, silks, and needlework were the common fabrics, held together with leather and nails. They often were bulky and richly ornate with detail in the wood carving. I couldn't even imagine how long one chair would take in hours to produce.

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Donald and Milania-Trump have decked out their home in classic Baroque french details. Marble floors and walls, and gilt chairs fill there home for that striking elaborate interior.

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French Louis XV Dining Chair

Admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:07:46 +0000

These open back provincial chairs are very easy to find. In fact, in the 1950's they produced quite a bit of french provincial dining room tables with the Louis XV chair as inspiration. The french designs became popular with several companies around the 1900's where many small businesses manufacturered the look, shipping their pieces around the United States, growing in size and popularity. Again in 1950, the style took off, with provincial dining sets, bedroom sets, and living room sets. A number of companies made the bedroom provincial sets, ranging from higher end quality wood, to pressed wood with melamine tops. Thomasville, Drexel are the recommended sets, as they did use higher quality wood, as well as Union Company (on the higher end), as well as John Widdicomb being one of the first to manufacture the look. Today, if you are hoping to come across one of these chairs, or are looking for a provincial set, they are fairly easy to locate. The very best thing to come from these 1950's sets is that they are reproductions of the Louis Styled furniture. They are quite affordable to pick up, and upholster or paint to subsitute for the antique Louis styles that can be a bit expensive.

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This is the typical wood chair that came with many of the french provincial sets. (The painted blue chair) They can be found very easily and for little money. They are the perfect chair to paint as you can see with the picture showing the painted blue chair that is slightly distressed. This chair shows a fantastic paint job. Often times with this sort of chair you can include two colors, either blue, gray, green or white for the main frame, and gold or white for the edging.

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Louis XVI Rounded Back

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Louis XVI chairs are often oval, rectangular or shield form. The cabriole legs of the Louis XV had been replaced with straight legs and are fluted legs imitating the columns of ancient Rome. Most of the furniture and chests were retangular, or square than the obvious curves such as the Bombe chests of Louis XV. (Picture to the left- House Beautiful, Style Court Blog)

Louis XVI style fell between 1774–1793, which was at the time the tale end of Rococo and the beginning of Neoclassicism. Neoclassicaism was reflected in the architecture, painting, and sculptures, so the styles gravitated towards something opposite than the ornate rococo. Styles took a dramtic turn when the excavation of Pompeii, which was a roman resort distroyed by a volcano. Through uncovering roman artifacts, people drew a new light on the ancient style incorporating the roman elements such as urns, columns and classical motifs.

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Louis XVI Bergeres Tub Barrel Chairs

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The popular "barrel chair" or well known as the tub chair, took off in the 1940s and proved to be especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s and is still popular today with many variations. The barrel chair that was made in the 50's and 60's has been a remake of the fench Louis XVI Bergeres. With many of the reproductions in the 50's the classic french looks are so much more affordable than the antiques. A barrel chair is a chair with has a round back like half a barrel. Barrel chairs are currently produced in a wide variety of styles, so there is a very good chance that you will be able to find a look that fits in with your unique decor. From Modern, to French, and then to traditional looks, no matter your style, the barrel chair has been produced in a number of styles that will fit into your decor.

Picture to the Left - Pierre Deux Find some great Barrel Tub Chairs here

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Here is a vintage barrel chair from the 50's. After fixing up many barrel chairs, the ones to look for are the cane back chairs. I would not suggest buying the vintage chairs which have the back middle section upholstered which tend to look dated, where as the full cane that wraps around the chair look timeless. The picture below shows that the canary yellow can look just as hot with a black frame.

This Outstanding Black Cane Chair with a white leather seat can be found on ebay under Well Appointed House

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French Louis XV Bergère Chair

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The Bergere Chair is a stunning curved chair that that has an upholstered back with armrests upholstered. The chair is always upholstered exposing a wooden frame. First introduced in the Regence/Rococo period in France in the 17th century, it is as collectable today as it was popular then.

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French Louis XVI Chairs

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The Louis XVI style was all about simplicity, which replaced the exotic and ornate exuberance of the Louis XV style. Between 1760-1789 most furniture lost its extra ornamentation and lines became more architectural and straight. Oak wood was used for solid-wood pieces during this time period. Walnut, ash and burled walnut were used for seating and chairs. Mahogany and Satinwood became very fashionable both as veneer and it was used in solid pieces. Ebony also came fashionable as it was not used during the Louis XV period. Painted chairs and tables were trimmed in gold or another contrasting color. Gilded wood was used for chairs, console tables and mirror frames.

Legs and vertical supports appeared turned resembling spindles, quivers, columns and balusters. Bronze fittings were applied to almost all Louis XVI furniture but they were more ornamental than protective. Lines were vertical and horizontal in the Louis XVI style. Flat surfaces and right angles were the popular style with Moldings that appeared thinner and more elegant. Decorative elements are situated toward the top and bottom of furniture panels and include floral sprays hanging from knotted ribbons, or vases and urns containing flowers and greenery, strings of olive and oak leaves, short garlands of flowers and foliage, wreaths of laurel, ivy, and flowers, pinecones and pomegranates. Architectural motifs were used both as supports and as decorative elements. These include fluting, cabled fluting, leaf bud motifs, pilasters, fluted balusters and columns.

This Portrait of Louis XVI shows a great template of colors from the Dark green background to the use of pastels, such as the pale blue, orange, and cream and silver. By analyzing the portraits of the past they can serve as inspiration of gathering together your color palate when deciding on the scheme of your rooms.

Juan Pablo Molyneux Neoclassical Looks Which feature classic french louis XVI Chairs. The marble pattern on the flooring and the empire furniture is outstanding. Combine both styles for a luxurious look. The faux finish on the walls is outstanding.... or then again, it might be real marble.

Designer Juan Pablo Molyneux, featuring an antique empire desk, with animal print french Louis XVI chairs. What an outstanding room~

Designer Suzanne Kasler featuring a swedish inspired room, with gray toned walls, combined with a natural linen Louis XVI side chair.

Louis XVI Settee Room By Matthew Mead, and Louis XVI Settee by Pamela Skaist,

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