Beaux Arts furniture included chairs replicating models from the Renaissance and sofas inspired by Louis XIV. These pieces filled high-ceilinged rooms that featured tapestries fit for a medieval castle and were illuminated by crystal chandeliers reminiscent of those in European palaces. Leon Marcotte Company created furnishings for the White House mimicking the style of Louis XVI, while in France, cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle reproduced 18th-century pieces that would influence his later Art Nouveau style.
Students at the École des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris meticulously sketched Roman and Greek art and architecture as part of a curriculum that elevated the classical world. This reverence for history informed the architecture and design being constructed in the French capital and beyond, where columns and pediments were joined with elements referencing the Renaissance and Baroque eras, culminating in grand civic buildings such as the Palais Garnier opera house constructed under Napoleon III.
Beaux Arts style, also known as Classical Eclecticism for its flamboyant mixing of influences, made its way to the United States in the late 19th century through American architects who studied in Paris, like Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim. They designed monumental turn-of-the-century buildings like train stations, libraries, museums and mansions that featured soaring entry halls and grand stairways with nearly every surface embellished, from mosaic floors to stained-glass ceilings. The luxurious interiors of these Beaux Arts buildings, which weren’t crowded with objects as in the Victorian era, matched this spirit of opulence and embraced the past.
Find a collection of Beaux Arts decorative objects, lighting, wall decorations and other furniture on 1stDibs.
Little glazed stoneware plate by Jean Linard, circa 1970.
By Jean Linard
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Little glazed stoneware plate by Jean Linard. Artist signature under the base. Circa 1970. H : 1.4’ x 5.7’ x 5.1’ inches.
Ceramic
Antique Pink Border Paris Hand Painted Porcelain Fox Hunt and Dog Scene Plate
By Darte Frères
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful antique 19th century Paris porcelain plate. With a hand painted scene of a fox hunt in a bucolic landscape including a fleeing fox and 3 hounds in chase. It has a ...
Porcelain
Glazed stoneware plate by Jean Linard, circa 1970.
By Jean Linard
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glazed stoneware plate by Jean Linard. Artist signature under the base. Circa 1970. H : 1.9’ x 13.6’ x 13.4’ inches.
Ceramic
Glazed stoneware plate, France.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glazed stoneware plate. Artist signature under the base. H : 13.4’ x 1.8’ inches.
Ceramic
Glazed stoneware plate by Raoul Favretto, circa 1980-1990.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glazed stoneware plate by Raoul Favretto. Artist monogram under the base. Circa 1980-1990. H : 3.3’ x 14.4’ inches.
Ceramic
$500 / set
H 1 in Dm 11.5 in
John Glick Signed Set of 5 Plates Modernist Stoneware Glazed Ceramics Plum Tree
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist stoneware glazed ceramic set of 5 plates by Detroit artist John Glick of Plum Tree Pottery. Circa late 20th century. Glazed in earthtones. Artisisnal yet functional and m...
Ceramic, Pottery
$282Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.19 in Dm 8.67 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo green dessert coupe plate is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's ...
Porcelain
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble charger plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the blue yellow and green decor...
Porcelain
Charles X White Opaline Plate by Jean-Baptiste Desvignes
Located in Paris, FR
Opaline crystal plate decorated with dark blue forget-me-nots and gilded stripes, produced by Jean-Baptiste Desvignes. Desvignes was a French g...
Opaline Glass
$220Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 0.79 in Dm 12.21 in
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco charger leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale ...
Porcelain
Contemporary Oval Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble Oval Plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the blue yellow and green décor...
Porcelain
Antique Paris Porcelain Botanical Set of Plates, Flamen-Fleury
By Old Paris
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Paris Porcelain set of Botanical plates, Flamen-Fleury Factory, circa 1830-1835 The set of four Paris porcelain circular plates from Fl...
Porcelain
$259Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 0.79 in Dm 8.67 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco plate leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale is...
Porcelain
$306Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.19 in Dm 10.63 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo Charger is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's work. It conveys classical beauty and elegance....
Porcelain
$306Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 0.79 in Dm 10.63 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne dinner rim plate has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylised flowers; sub...
Porcelain
$220Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 0.79 in Dm 12.21 in
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne Rim Charger has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylized flowers; subtle l...
Porcelain
$303 / set
H 0.79 in Dm 10.63 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble Dinner Plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the elegant white with its blue yellow and green decor...
Porcelain
10 Ovington New York Gilt Dinner Plates
By Ovington Brother At New York
Located in Norwood, NJ
Set of 10 Crescent & Sons heavily gilt porcelain dinner plates retailed by Ovington Bros. Co. New York. White porcelain with large gilt edge borde...
Gold
12 Royal Bavarian Hutschenreuther Heavily Gilt Porcelain Dinner Plates
Located in Norwood, NJ
Set of 12 dinner plates with exceptional design featuring heavy raised gilding with images of chariots and mythological Griffin's or Gryphon. Marked Royal Bavarian...
Gold
French Porcelain Gilded and Hand-Painted Rose Dinner Plates, Set of Six
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six French porcelain hand painted and gilded rose floral dinner plates, circa 1910. Showing the over mark for the retail importer, A. Sch...
Porcelain
Sold
H 21 in W 14.5 in D 1.5 in
Spectacular Antique Limoge Porcelain 194 Piece Dish Set by Theodore Haviland
Located in Port Jervis, NY
50 dinner plates 9.75 in., 34 lunch / salad plates 9 in., 17 deep soup bowls 9.5 in., three round platters 14.25 in and 2 12 in., four graduated oval platters 21, 19, 16.5, and 14 in., 15 tea cups with 16 saucers, 12 coffee cups with 13 saucers, nine demi-tasse cups with ten saucers, coffee pot with lid, large sugar bowl with lid, large creamer...
Gold