From 06.10 to 30.11 -REMISE 25\% Stamped E. Meunier - Pair Of Lacquered Wood Armchairs - 18th century

From 06.10 to 30.11 - 25% discount - New price: 3600 €.

Beautiful pair of armchairs in cream lacquered wood, molded and carved with flowers (small differences on each armchair).
Curved backrest with accolade top.
Slightly recessed armrests.
Curved legs.
New damask silk upholstery by Tassinari.
Both stamped: E. MEUNIER
Louis XV period

Etienne Meunier -
Chair joiner. Paris. This is the most famous joiner of this name. He practiced on rue de Cléry in the mid-eighteenth century. His work is of the highest quality.
Étienne Meunier was the first and certainly the most renowned of a dynasty of Parisian joiners.
His life is little known. By the mid-18th century, he was working on rue de Cléry for such fashionable merchants as Pierre Migeon and Étienne Igou.
All Louis XV chairs bearing his stamp are of the highest quality.
He produced bergères, light and elegant armchairs in a variety of shapes, chairs with sober, well thought-out lines, and a large number of daybeds, but the office chair appears to be his great specialty. Most of these armchairs are classic, with circular seats covered in leather or upholstered in cane, whose belt rests on a foot in front. Étienne Meunier was probably one of the designers of this model.
The decoration is discreet, and the carvings, although of great finesse, are few and far between, often limited to a flower framed by a few leaves.
His workshop, still mentioned in 1770, may have been kept by his widow until the end of Louis XV's reign.
MUSEUMS
Fauteuil de bureau Louis XV, Fauteuil Louis XV à la reine canné - Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Paris
Louis XV caned desk armchair, in gilded carved wood - Jacquemart-André - Paris
Louis XV cabinet armchair in painted beech, circa 1750 - Musée du Louvre - Paris
Louis XV desk armchair in carved wood - Musée des Arts décoratifs - Strasbourg
Louis XV caned desk armchair with median leg, rosewood and violet wood veneer - Rijksmusum - Amsterdam

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