Galerie Perrin » Armchairs

Desk chair

Accueil — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:41:56 +0000

This elegant mahogany desk chair is characteristic for the Louis XVI period. It has a raised curved back support that stands on four baluster-shaped columns resting on the seat rail, and ends in finely carved scroll decorations. It is upholstered with fine leather and stands on four tapering baluster-shaped legs, delicately moulded at the shoulders and the feet.
The absence of protruding armrests enhances the chair’s functionality, while offering comfort thanks to its wide seat. This unique model with its pure and simplified forms, as well as its mahogany frame, already foresees a new style which was to emerge during the Consulate and the Empire.

Pair of steel armchairs.

Accueil — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:25:32 +0000

At the beginning, this type of seats were created to fill the military troops need for logistic effectiveness early in the 19th century, starting with Napoleon himself, extremely protective of his campaign furniture. He wrote in 1812 : "My tent needs to fit in a single truck. This reflects the art of the Garde-Meuble (furniture storage). Spend twice as much if necessary but build a practical, strong and light furniture" . To fulfill the expectations of the Emperor, the administration of the Garde Meuble impérial commissioned tents, beds, armchairs, chairs, tools and tables to be easily folded, put away and moved. Since function preceded form, the latter was reduced to its single most expression, as featured in our armchair.

Steel Armchair

Michael — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:40:24 +0000

This armchair features a tubular structure in polished steel, ending in refined gilt fleurets finials. The high backrest is reinforced with upper and lower liners. The armrests are supported by consoles, perpendicular to the front legs, forming a grid with three vertical stems. The front seat rail is enhanced with a gilt apron, opulently adorned with scrolling palms.

Jacob Freres, desk armchair “with rambs”

admin — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:30:16 +0000

Upholstered with leopard skin, this mahogany armchair offers a comfortable and wide seat. The curved backrest is pierced with crossed bands, joined with rosettes medallions. Each side is reinforced with volutes forming console.
Literature :
- Guillaume Janneau, Les Sièges, Paris, Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1967.
- Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les ébénistes du XIX^e siècle, 1795-1889. Leurs œuvres et leurs marques, Paris, 1984 (re-published in 2000).
- Marie-Noëlle de Grandry, Le mobilier français. Directoire, Consulat, Empire, Paris, 1996.
- Michel Beurdeley, Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2002.
- Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Mobilier français. Consulat et Empire, Paris, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2009

Pair of “bergères”

Accueil — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:41:06 +0000

A pair of Louis XV period “bergères” stamped three times S. BLANCHARD in beech moulded and sculpted flowers.

Hair dressing armchair

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:50:01 +0000

This natural wood armchair features a curved seat rail widening at the front with molded borders, enhanced at each angle with paterae enclosing a carved stylized rosette. Each paterae crowns a tapering spiral fluted leg ending at the bottom in a large flat band and a small sphere. The back rest, entirely upholstered, is low and indented to facilitate hair care. The two padded armrests ending in scrolls join the seat rail through fluted scrolled s-shaped arm supports attached to the front legs paterae with a triglyph.

Bernard Molitor (1755-1833, Master in 1787) – Set of six armchairs and six chairs

Marie — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:19 +0000

Bought in Paris at the beginning of the Consulate by count Nicolas-Antoine-Xavier de Castella de Berlens, future general of the Empire, to furnish his Parisian hotel particulier; transferred to his chateau de Wallenried in Switzerland; inherited by the Castella family in Wallenried; private European collection. This set of twelve mahogany chairs and armchairs is characteristic of the end of the Directoire (1795-1799) and the beginning of the Consulate period (1799-1804). The tapering baluster shaped front legs topped with a gadrooned crown are ending in carved paws. The back legs are splayed. Each foot is surmounted with a stylized rosette within a square inset.

François-Honoré-Georges Jacob known as Jacob-Desmalter (1770-1841). Set of four armchairs with sphinges

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:50:43 +0000

Each armchair features a straight-lined seat rail arched on the front, resting on two slightly tapering square section front legs, and two saber back legs flaring outwards in the Etruscan manner. The sides of the back rest are shaped as a console ending in a scroll at the top. Jacob-Desmalter thus enhanced our armchairs with important female sphinxes, which can also be admired in a set of six carved giltwood armchairs delivered for the Palais des Tuileries in 1808, now conserved at the château de Versailles

Georges Jacob (Cheny, 1739 – Chaillot, 1814, Maître en 1765) – Set of four armchairs

Accueil — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:06:53 +0000

Set of four armchairs in moulded, carved and painted wood.

Jean Boucault, set of eight Louis XV armchairs

Accueil — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:46:16 +0000

Set of eight Louis XV armchairs, each with a curvilinear seat back “à la reine”, shaped in the form of a cartouche and arched at the top, consists of scrolled moldings and a central floral composition. Emerging from the back frame, the excurvate and padded arms terminate in inwardly turned scrolls which are linked to the molded arm supports. The turned front legs are also crowned with floral ornaments.