Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
LOUIS XVI STYLE
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.
Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Louis XVI
1890s Louis XVI Pink French Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
1890s Louis XVI with a unique pink color marble mantel. Please note, this item is located in our Scranton, PA location.
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
Pair of French Gilt-Bronze Neoclassical Andirons
Located in Pembroke, MA
Pair of nice quality French gilded-bronze andirons or chenets, with neoclassical detailing, including urns, and swags of roses and acanthus leaves, with old forged iron bars to suppo...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Iron
18th Century Stone antique Fireplace Mantel Built in the Louis XVI Period
Located in Beervelde, BE
This original fireplace surround is in very good condition. It has some wonderful carving including a very pretty medallion on the front; it would look splendid in a paneled room.
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Stone
Louis XVI Rouge Griotte Marble Mantel 'FR-NY53'
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI with Laurel leaf ormolu banding carved in Rouge Griotte marble. Opening Dimensions: 43" W x 32.5" H.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Griotte Marble
18th Century Pair of Louis XVI Columns 1700
Located in Roma, RM
Pair of French columns , period straddling Louis XV and Louis XVI , worked in faux marble and with finely carved Corinthian capital worked in gold leaf. Excellent as vase holders or ...
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1770s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Wood
Antique French Louis XVI Style Fireplace Mantel in Rouge De Saint Pons Marble
Located in London, GB
A 19th century petit Louis XVI style fireplace in quality Rouge de Saint Pons marble. The canted jambs with stop flutes panels surmounted by conforming stop fluted corner blocks, fla...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
18th French Country Limestone Original Fireplace Mantle
Located in Beervelde, BE
This very nice French country style limestone fireplace surround and carries still some original patina. The mantel has deep jambs with deep retours (which can be adapted). This is a...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Limestone
Antique French Plaster Architectural with Female Mascaron, Late 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful plaster architectural from the late 1800s, depicting a female mascaron surmounting a highly scrolled coat of arms shield. The young wom...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Plaster
Gilt Bronze And Iron Fireplace Box Grate
Located in Norwood, NJ
19th century highly decorative gilt bronze and iron box form fireplace grate insert. In the Louis XVI style with urn and flame center flanked by scrolling florets and flame form fini...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Antique Wood Fireplace Mantel 19th Century
Located in Made, NL
Special wooden castle fireplace from the 19th century in the style of Louis XVI. This fireplace is beautiful in shape and also has beautiful details in t...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Oak
19th Century Mantle Surround of Sarrancolin Marble in the Style of Louis XVI
Located in Made, NL
Beautiful colorful antique fireplace of the unique Sarrancolin marble. This 'royal' type of marble was popular because of its great wealth of colors and red flame motifs and in the t...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated Gilt Metal Chenets
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Patinated Gilt Metal decorated acorn Chenets. Measures 14" in width and stand 9" tall. Listing is for the pair. Not per item
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Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Metal, Gold Leaf
Antique Louis XVI Fireplace in Seravezza
Located in London, GB
An antique Louis XVI marble fireplace in finely veined seravezza marble. The crisply moulded shelf sits above a panelled frieze, fra...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
19th Century Fireplace in Style of Louis XVI
Located in Made, NL
Authentic French limestone fireplace with beautiful decorations in the front area. This elegant mantle surround dates from the 19th century and is in the style of Louis XVI. The beau...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Louis XVI Style Fireplace in White Carrara Marble
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Louis XV style fireplace in white Carrara marble Hearth dimensions: 90 x 83cm.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Gray Marble Antique Fireplace Surround
Located in Oostvoorne, NL
Gray antique front fireplace. The gray marble type where this fireplace is from buildings has a wild pattern. The veins in this type of stone provide a beautiful drawing. The firepla...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Striking Campan Marble Louis XVI FIreplace Mantel
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Amazingly colorful French Louis XVI fireplace mantel executed in striking Campan marble.
This marble is known for its amazing variety in color, this mantel shows everything the quar...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Perfect Antique French Louis XVI Fireplace Mantel
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Tall, elegant Louis XVI fireplace mantel.
This lovely mantelpiece is crisp and lovely decorated through out.
very nice warm and soft toned limestone.
Great overhanging frieze s...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Limestone
Antique French Beccia Marble Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A delicately veined blue/grey and white Breccia Marble antique chimneypiece in the French Empire style with a slow arched opening and deep side returns. French, circa 1860.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
19th Century Marble Mantel in Style of Louis XVI of Levanto Marble from Toscane
Located in Made, NL
Exclusive antique marble fireplace with 19th century pillars! A beautiful mantle in our collection, with beautiful lines and ornaments, in the style of Louis XVI. The marble type is ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Marble
Pair of Marble Urns with Cherubs, Signed A. Moreau
Located in Cypress, CA
Impressive large pair of French Louis XVI style hand carved white marble urns with cherubs, signed A.Moreau.
Highly attractive and very decorative.
la...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble
Unusual Louis XVI Style Doré Bronze Figural Fire Place Fender, E. F. Caldwell
Located in New York, NY
A very rare and unusual Louis XVI style doré bronze figural fire place fender attributed to E. F. Caldwell and Company NY. The double handelled central Urn with rams heads, having a ...
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1890s American Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze
Large French Louis XVI Style Wood Jardinière or Planter with Divided Zinc Insert
Located in Birmingham, AL
Fabulous Louis XVI style wood jardinière from a hotel near Èze, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France, having typical neoclassical carved and ebonized lo...
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1910s French Vintage Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Zinc
19th Century Rich Sculpted Louis XVI White Carrara Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A rich and beautiful 19th century antique French sculpted Louis XVI white Carrara marble fireplace mantel.
Hand-carved with a serpentine shelf with, detailed frieze which is powerful...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Carrara Marble, Marble
Antique French Louis XVI Style Carved Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A large Louis XVI style 19th century surround in Italian Carrara marble. The carved acanthus leaf console jambs having tapering rope twist panels, terminating in scrolls. The bowed f...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Carrara Marble
Rustic Limestone Louis XVI Fireplace
Located in London, GB
An 18th century French Louis XVI limestone fireplace. The frieze with fluting to centre panel, flanked by Greek key pattern and carved rosettes. Stop-fluted jambs below. An attractiv...
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18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Limestone
Palatial Antique French Louis XVI Style White Marble and Gilt Bronze Mantle
Located in New York, NY
A palatial and magnificent large antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted carved white marble fireplace of exceptional workmanship embellished with superb gilt bronze mounts.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Fireplace in Statuary and Sienna Marble
Located in London, GB
A 19th century French Louis XVI antique fireplace in veined Statuary and Italian Siena marble. The carved frieze with Neo-Classical urn to centre, flanked by drapery. The inlaid stop...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
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Statuary Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu Chenets / Andirons by Bouhon Freres, 19th Century
Located in Berlin, DE
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu chenets, cast by Bouhon Fre`res, Paris, late 19th century. Each modelled with two flaming athe´niennes supported by hoof monopodiae surmounted by ram...
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1880s French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
19th Century Louis XVI Style French Caen Limestone Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A caen limestone 19th century French mantel with a carved urn across the frieze in the Louis XVI style with en trumeau. Opening dimensions: 45" W x 35.5" H.
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Building and Garden Elements
Louis Xvi building and garden elements for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI building and garden elements for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage building and garden elements created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, marble and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI building and garden elements made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original building and garden elements, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Henry Dasson, François Linke, and Bouhon Frères. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for building and garden elements differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3 and tops out at $500,000 while the average work can sell for $9,909.
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