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A French 19th Century Pair of Louis XVI Style Large Curule Stools

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A French 19th Century Pair of Large Rectangular Curule Stools Gilt and carved wood, decorated with interlace frieze, acanthus leaves and rosaces The 4 feet linked by a gadrooned stretcher. Louis XVI Style Napoléon III Period In the manner of Georges Jacob (1739-1814) Attributed to Maison Jansen Circa 1900 Used Petit Point Tapestry Upholstery Maison Jansen, the French luxury: Opulence, refinement, audacity of style marriages… so many words agree with Maison Jansen. Through this name, a whole era sounds like a reminder of a certain French chic… Some names evoke immutable images, atmospheres... Like Jansen, for example. Let’s close our eyes… The 1960s and 1970s are at their peak. France is doing well. It is a country of full employment where everything seems possible. Within the international Jet Set, a carefree crowd of movie stars, public figures, literary idols and crowned heads, we love the Maison Jansen, its taste for styles struck with a good quality exuberance, and its brilliant side. It all began in 1880, when the Dutchman Jean Henri Jansen founded the epon-ymous house in Paris. Jansen is part of the continuity of these world-famous furniture manufacturers and companies that operated under the Second Empire and at the time of the Universal Exhibitions, as the ‘Escalier de Cristal’ teaches. At that time, the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'Indus-trie and the Société du musée des Arts Décoratifs merged to form the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs. Supported by both gallery owners, collectors and manufacturers, this organi-zation gives the «la» to the whole profession, and in the prevailing politico-ideological slump (France was defeated by Prussia in 1871 and Napoleon III is in exile), the ‘Union Centrale des Art Décoratifs’ focuses production on the celebration of past styles. While this nostalgia evokes memories of an era that we imagine more stable, an innovative exoticism will be all the rage: the reign of Turkish style and Japonisme. The Jansen house masterfully rushed into the «exotic» trend, but quickly de-veloped a style derived from the ornamental splendor of the eighteenth, then a little later, so-called «imperial» styles mainly intended for royal families. Af-ter the First World War, J.H Jansen was joined by the cartoonist Albert Cazes, by Stéphane Boudin and by Pierre Delbée, who successively directed the house when it disappeared in 1929. At the end of the Kennedy era, Boudin complete-ly redecorated the White House, at the request of the First Lady, Jackie, who had fallen in love with his work after discovering it at Malmaison. In 1971, Jansen joined forces with Leleu-Deshays and continued its quest for excellence. From 1969 to 1979, the dandy decorator Serge Robin took the reins of the house, granting it an eclectic and luxurious style: he revisited the great eras of French art, from the Renaissance to Louis XVI, by modernizing them with more contemporary pieces in Plexiglas or wrought iron. His recomposed and sophisticated style met with resounding success. When Jackie Kennedy, who became the wife of the great Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, moved to France, the young architect married Louis XVI-style furniture to modernist designs from the 1950s. When the Shah of Iran decided to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Per-sian Empire in 1971, Serge Robin and his teams turned to the grandiose and ephemeral setting of Persepolis. A hundred semi-trailers then left the work-shops on Rue Saint-Sabin to reach Tehran. At the same time, Princess Soraya of Iran commissioned her a sumptuous palace for Avenue Montaigne, the princes Faisal bin Fahd of Arabia and Mubarak Al-Sabah, and the Agnelli snatched it. On the French side, he puts his talent at the service of Brigitte Bardot, for whom he completely revamped the Madrague and the Lannes boulevard. Serge Robin embodies all the audacity of the name Jansen with the most im-probable weddings. With him, Plexiglas tables, Japanese chairs from the 50s, gold thread curtains, zebra sofas and leather Louis XVI style chests of drawers decorated the most fashionable apartments of the «seventies». All the best stories have an end. At the dawn of the 1990s, weakened by the changes of a society plagued by concern, the disappearance or the remoteness of noble families, and the increasing scarcity of bourgeois residences, the Jan-sen house lost its aging clientele. The brand is missing the turn of modernity, and cannot adapt to changes in society, changing tastes, and the importance of design. In 1989, it was closed. Jansen has not disappeared from the landscape: the house’s creations are still present on the market and in the French auction houses, but also in the United States, where they are very appreciated. Trans-parent Plexiglas tables, leather and metal armchairs, zebra sofas, exotic cabi-nets and chests of drawers in the Regency Style continue to find their place in some interiors, rekindling the flame of a time when we hoped for ever better tomorrow… Georges Jacob is a French cabinet maker who produced an untold number of chairs from the reign of Louis XV to the Consulate. When he was an apprentice carpenter, he completed his journeyman internship with Louis Delanois, the supplier of the Comtesse du Barry. A fervent promoter of neoclassical sieges, Louis Delanois will exert an indisputable influence on Georges Jacob. Received master in 1765 he opened his workshop rue de Cléry then moved-in 1775 rue Meslée, thanks to a wealthy and royal clientele. In fact, requested from 1773 by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, he would not stop working for him until the Revolution. Georges Jacob is one of the official suppliers of Marie-Antoinette, but also of Monsieur, Count of Provence and brother of the King, future Louis XVIII, of the future Charles X, of the Prince of Condé, of the Duke of Penthièvre, as well as of the princes’ foreigners like the future Gustav III of Sweden and George IV of England. An innovative cabinetmaker, he is often one step ahead of future trends and does not hesitate to imagine new decorations and new shapes of legs or seat arms such as connecting dice decorated with ro-settes, the finished console legs. at their top by a volute and the baluster-shaped armrest supports. The carved ornamentation of his furniture is abundant with recurring themes such as natural motifs of flowers and foliage, and friezes of foliage, piastres, ribbons, pearls, and interlacing. He was one of the promoters of English seats, with openwork backs inspired by Chippendale and Adam, as well as the initiator, from the Louis XVI period of the characteristic shapes of what we call today the Directoire style, inspired among other things by “Etruscan” furniture. While his friendship with the painter Jacques-Louis David enabled him to navigate the Revolution without a hitch, he quickly encountered other problems. In fact, in 1796 he sold his business to these two sons who thus founded “Jacob Frères” but unfortunately the eldest, Georges II, died in 1803. Georges Jacob father would then reconstitute with his second son François-Honoré-Georges a business, Georges Jacob senior died in his home rue Meslée in 1814.

Attributed to:

Maison Jansen (Cabinetmaker)

Similar to:

Georges Jacob (Cabinetmaker)

Dimensions:

Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 19.69 in (50 cm)Seat Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Louis XVI (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Giltwood,Tapestry,Wood,Gilt,Lacquered