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Creator: Jean Joseph Chapuis
Jean-Joseph Chapuis Rare Pair of Empire parcel-gilt japanned Fauteuils
By Jean Joseph Chapuis
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Despite his long life, very little is known about the general production of menuisier (chairmaker) Jean-Joseph Chapuis and even less about his use of bent laminates, which must be viewed as the most advanced of its kind until the appearance of Michael Thonet’s work of the 1830s. The profound reverence for the classical world in enlightened circles in early nine-teenth-century Europe and the United States often resulted in the archaeological resurrection of the art, architecture, and design of ancient Greece and Rome. No chair employing the innovative technique of bending wood more boldly expresses this allegiance to the past than this armchair painted in le style antique and based on the ancient Roman sella curulis (folding stool); With a curved toprail decorated with putti supporting a medaillion and flanked by scrolling acanthus, the arms with ball finials, above a caned seat, on curved supports terminating in foliate gilt-metal sabots. This merger of technological innovation with fashionable aesthetics parallels the work of the American Samuel Gragg...
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Early 19th Century Belgian Empire Antique Jean-joseph Chapuis Seating

Materials

Bentwood

Jean-Joseph Chapuis Rare Pair of Empire parcel-gilt japanned Fauteuils
Jean-Joseph Chapuis Rare Pair of Empire parcel-gilt japanned Fauteuils

Jean-Joseph Chapuis Rare Pair of Empire parcel-gilt japanned Fauteuils

Important Empire Early 19th Century Fauteuil by Jean-Joseph Chapuis
By Jean Joseph Chapuis
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Despite his long life, very little is known about the general production of menuisier (chairmaker) Jean-Joseph Chapuis (1765-1864) and even less about his use of bent laminates, which must be viewed as the most advanced of its kind until the appearance of Michael Thonet’s work of the 1830s. The profound reverence for the classical world in enlightened circles in early 19th century Europe and the United States often resulted in the archaeological resurrection of the art, architecture, and design of ancient Greece and Rome. No chair employing the innovative technique of bending wood more boldly expresses this allegiance to the past than this armchair painted in le style antique and based on the ancient Roman sella...
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Early 19th Century Belgian Empire Antique Jean-joseph Chapuis Seating

Materials

Cane, Bentwood

Important Empire Early 19th Century Fauteuil by Jean-Joseph Chapuis
Important Empire Early 19th Century Fauteuil by Jean-Joseph Chapuis

Important Empire Early 19th Century Fauteuil by Jean-Joseph Chapuis

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