Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
1880s French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Early 19th Century Dutch Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble, Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
1860s French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Other
1860s French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Statuary Marble
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Statuary Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Statuary Marble
18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
17th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Early 19th Century French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble
Early 19th Century French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Late 19th Century Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Wrought Iron
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
19th Century Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
1890s French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century Belgian Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Griotte Marble
1920s Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Stone
18th Century French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
18th Century European Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Late 19th Century French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble, Statuary Marble
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Statuary Marble
Early 1800s French Louis XV Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
18th Century Belgian Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble, Breccia Marble
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Statuary Marble
Mid-18th Century Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Limestone
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble
Mid-19th Century French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble, Carrara Marble
1860s French Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Marble
Mid-19th Century Louis Xvi Gray Antique Mantel
Carrara Marble
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A Close Look at louis-xvi Furniture
Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.
Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.
Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.
The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.
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Finding the Right fireplaces-mantels for You
While we likely wouldn’t mourn the invention of home heating and air-conditioning, these innovations did tragically reduce the widespread need for fireplaces and mantels in our living rooms.
Once an essential fixture in all homes, the fireplace, which, along with the chimney, is as old as the Middle Ages, was actually rendered redundant with the advent of the cast-iron heating stove during the 18th century. Victorian-era heating stoves were popular in the common areas of a living space for their capacity to heat as well as for their lack of smoke compared to fireplaces. However, improvements in craftsmanship as well as the Industrial Revolution meant that fireplaces were evolving in form and functionality.
Even as HVAC systems would eventually see to it that fireplaces weren’t a necessity, no mechanically engineered thermal heating and ventilation technology can replicate the feeling of warmth and camaraderie that a flickering fire guarantees. We just love a good fireplace.
“With antique fireplaces, you get heart, soul, character and architecture,” says Tony Ingrao, a Manhattan-based interior designer who purchased an important 16th-century French limestone fireplace for a client’s Greenwich Village townhouse.
Vintage fireplaces and mantels have earned their coveted position as desirable focal points in any room over the course of a staggering evolution in design that has yielded everything from intricately carved works of limestone to sleek works of wood paneling and rolled steel.
As log after log turns into ash, these iconic designs prove their timelessness and value, monetarily and as prized decorative monuments. Whether you seek to simply warm a space or completely transform it, an eye-catching new mantel for your blazing hearth — be it an elegant neoclassical design, a marvelous work of marble in the Louis XV style or an unconventional contemporary variation — is the perfect solution.
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