Antique Furniture: Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical

America ancient André-Charles Boulle architectural armchair artistic Baroque became bedchamber Biedermeier bombé Boulle bronze mounts cabinet cabinet-makers cabriole leg candlestands carved and gilded centre chairs Chinese chinoiserie classical colour commode console tables court architect craftsmen cupboard curved delicate developed Dutch early nineteenth century ébéniste ebony eighteenth century elegant Empire style England English Europe examples fashionable Filippo Juvarra finest France furniture design furniture-makers German Gothick houses imitation important influence inlay Italian Italy king lacquer Late eighteenth-century LEFT lighter Louis XIV luxury magnificent mahogany marquetry menuisiers Mid-eighteenth-century mirror motifs Napoleon Neoclassical style Neoclassicism ormolu ornament painted palace Palladian panels particularly pattern books piece of furniture pietre dure popular porcelain Prince Queen reign RIGHT Robert Adam Rococo Rococo period Rococo style Rome rooms royal scrolls sculptural seat furniture secrétaire seventeenth century shaped Sheraton sofa suite taste Thomas Chippendale Thomas Sheraton tortoiseshell upholstered veneered Versailles wall William wood workshop