From 06.10 to 30.11 - REMISE de 25\% - Stamped E. Meunier - 18th Century Lacquered Wood Bergère

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Stamped E. MEUNIER - Bergère in cream lacquered wood - Louis XV period

Pretty cream lacquered wood shepherd's chair, molded and carved with flowers.
The back is straight with an accolade at the top.
The full armrests are slightly recessed.
The legs are curved.
New damask silk upholstery by Tassinari.
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, was perhaps 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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