The style of 18th-century French furniture was guided by the court. When Louis XV, who reigned from 1715–74, focused royal life on the smaller salons of Versailles rather than its grand chambers, it transformed the aesthetics away from the imposing and angular furniture that characterized the style of Louis XIV. A broader focus on comfort and more delicate forms define antique Louis XV furniture, with nature-inspired carvings, wood inlays, curved cabriole legs, asymmetrical shapes and rounded oval seat backs. The furnishings changed throughout the king’s life, as he ascended to the throne as a child and then grew to establish his own tastes.
Pieces like the bergère, an upholstered armchair with a wide cushion that fit the flowing dresses in fashion at the time, reflected this more informal court. Introduced at the start of Louis XV’s reign, bergère chairs in this style were deeper and broader than other chairs of the period.
Louis XV tapestries and carpets tended to be floral and colorful, and design elements were borrowed from Asia. Dutch-born cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh brought lacquer techniques influenced by Japan and China into his luxuriously made furniture. Along with its fine details, the furniture of the era also featured new innovations including mechanical devices. Jean François Oeben, a royal cabinetmaker, created such intricate pieces as a mechanical table for Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. It involved a sliding top and a writing surface that extended from its marquetry panels.
During the later years of Louis XV’s reign, there was a shift from the ostentatious rocaille style, part of the exuberantly decorative Rococo movement in Europe for which designers such as Nicolas Pineau and Juste-Aurèle Meissonier are known. The style under Louis XVI would return to boxier forms, but with a neoclassical touch inspired by the ancient world.
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Louis XV Style Mahogany and Marble-Top Coffee Table with Bronze Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
This elegant Louis XV style marble-top coffee table is made out of mahogany with tapered legs. The table has exquisite detailed bronze mounts and a bronze band around the marble top....
Bronze
$1,321Sale Price|25% Off
Italian Louis XV Style Coffee Table in Gilded Bronze with Onyx Top
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Italian Louis XV Style Coffee Table in Gilded Bronze with Onyx Top. This is a beautiful and sophisticated coffee table made in Italy around the 70s, it perfectly reflects the distinc...
Onyx, Bronze
Louis XV Provincial Fruitwood Sofa Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Louis XV provincial fruitwood sofa / console table, made from antique elements, made circa 1950's. With a rectangular top with slightly rounded front corners, 3 frieze drawers with b...
Brass
Italian 18th Century Louis XV Giltwood and Marble Console Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
A stunning and extremely decorative Italian 18th century Louis XV period patinated gilt wood and marble console. The wall mounted console is raised by two patinated cabriole legs with carved acanthus leaf accented feet, and larger scrolls at the top. Wonderful movement throughout. Use it as a console table, a entry hallway table...
Marble
$2,072Sale Price / set|20% Off
French Mahogany and Marble-Top Set of Two Coffee Table with Bronze Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
This elegant set of Louis XV style tables with marble top are made of mahogany with marquetry in four sides edges, with four tapered legs. The tables has exquisite detailed bronze mo...
Bronze
$950Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Lombardy Louis XV Style Center Table
Located in Encinitas, CA
Lombardy style center table in walnut with four curved legs and ebony profiles. Wonderful modern line, clean and elegant. Stylish for a small entry table...
Walnut
$2,636Sale Price|28% Off
French Console Table Louis XV Giltwood Barley Twist
Located in Lake Worth, FL
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Glass, Giltwood
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Console After Charles Cressent
By Charles Cressent
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style Ormolu-Mounted tulipwood and mahogany console table with marble top, in the manner of Charles Cressent (French, 1685–1768). The serpent...
Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Console Table Marble Top Louis XV Carved Walnut Foyer Sofa Entry
Located in Tyler, TX
Exquisite antique French walnut Louis XV style highly carved console or sofa table with marble top~~c. 1900 Highly carved antique French Louis XV style walnut console or sofa table with shaped marble top over highly carved pierced foliate shell 8" apron, sturdy cabriole legs and whorl feet~~curving x-form carved stretchers with floral center orb~~old pegged construction~~gorgeous statement piece! Perfect for a foyer console table...
Marble
French 1750s Walnut Library Table with Carved Drawers and Original Hardware
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French mid 18th century walnut library table of the Louis XV period with two drawers and original hardware. Born during the reign of King Louis XV, this French walnut table offers ...
Wood, Walnut
Louis XV Style Set of Two Coffee Table with Marble-Top
Located in Miami, FL
This elegant set of Louis XV style tables with marble top, structure made of walnut, with four tapered legs.
Walnut
19th Century Provincial Louis XV Style Dough Bin in Walnut, France
Located in Atlanta, GA
Louis XV style provincial walnut dough bin with Cabriole legs, 19th century, France.
Walnut
$7,137 / item
Louis XV Style Console Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Louis XV style mahogany and rosewood banded console table applied with very fine brass mounts, the brass bound top with a frieze drawer, on ram's head capital cabriole legs with ho...
Brass
19th Century Bureau Plat with Floral and Blue Porcelain Plaques
Located in London, GB
A very fine bureau plat in the manner of Edward Holmes Baldock. After a model by C.C. Saunier. English made, in the Louis XVth taste, constructed in kingwood, with purpleheart crossbanding and adorned with bleu celeste porcelain plaques with hand-painted floral decoration and extensive fire gilt bronze mounts; rising from cabriole legs with brass sabots and bronze enrichments, in the apron, the one large central drawer is flanked by two smaller drawers with twenty four ‘Sevres’ porcelain plaques enclosed in symmetrical gilt bronze boss studded frames, chased and with a sand form ground. The serpentine top framed with a conforming bronze guard...
Brass, Bronze
18th Century Louis XV Giltwood Wall Console with Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Louis XV period giltwood wall mounted console table with pierced apron, serpentine shape with conforming original marble top. Originati...
Giltwood
French Provincial Console Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
A French Provincial Neo Classic antiqued wood console table, with two frieze drawers and two further tiers between square tapering supports. ...
Wood
$995
H 29 in W 60 in D 14 in
1990s Gordons Fine Furniture Asian Design Fruitwood Burl Console Sofa Table
Located in Germantown, MD
1990s Gordons Fine Furniture Asian design fruitwood burl console table/ sofa table. A pair Asian design fruitwood burl side tables by Gordon's F...
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table by Gae Aulenti, Glass Top, Italy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Mid-Century Modern coffee table ( tavolo con route ) from Gae Aulenti, the original for Fontana Arte, with glass top and swivel wheels in good condition. The Italian indust...
Glass, Rubber
Coffee Table with Magazine Rack in Teak Wood, Italy 1960s
By Ico Parisi
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning coffee table with a side magazine rack made in teak wood. Produced in Italy in the 60s in the style of Ico Parisi. The wood grain of the top are simply amazing and the parti...
Brass
French Louis XV Style Marble Top Oval Coffee Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A French Louis XV style oval coffee table with marquetry veneer of mahogany and inset black marble top. Cast bronze decorative details and brass trim. All original. Circa 1920s. Dim...
Belgian Black Marble, Brass, Bronze
Polished Walnut Console Table, Italian Classic 18th Century Design
Located in New York, NY
18th century Italian Classic walnut console table. Newly refinished. Traditional design with trestle base. Polished walnut. Beautiful natural patina. Other sizes and prices available.
Walnut
Italian Brass Coffee Table with Marble Top, 1960
Located in Dronten, NL
Very elegant Italian 1950's coffee table with a polished brass base and marble top. Excellent Italian craftsmanship and still in wonderful vintage condition with just the right amoun...
Marble, Brass
Rustic Provincial Pine Console Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Introducing the charming Rustic Provincial Pine Console Table, a beautifully crafted piece of furniture that exudes sophistication and rustic elegance. Its molded edge top is a stand...
Wood
Louis XV-Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Marble-Top Side Table
Located in New York, NY
A fine Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted mahogany and marble-top side table. Attributed to Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener (1848-1895) Origin: French Date: 19th century Dimension: H 2...
Marble, Bronze
$2,877
H 16.74 in W 47.64 in D 17.72 in
Midcentury Coffee Table with Magazine Rack in Teak Wood, Italy 1960s
By Ico Parisi
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous coffee table with a side magazine rack made in dark teak wood, it was produced in Italy in the 60s in the style of Ico Parisi. The wood tone of the top is simply amazing ...
Brass
18th Century, Louis XV Provencal Center Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Louis XV table from Provence. Made of solid walnut with deep hand-carved apron and thick cabriole legs. Two dovetailed dr...
Iron
Louis XV Style Patinated Console or Sofa Table Parquet Herringbone Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Console or sofa table with Beautiful Parquet wood top and heavily patinated base with two Drawers. A compliment to many rooms and a wonderful place to tel...
Wood
Coffee Table Made In Mahogany With Carvings From 1880s
Located in Lejre, DK
This antique mahogany coffee table, dating from around the 1880s, is a beautiful example of 19th-century craftsmanship and design. The ta...
Mahogany
Coffee Table Louis XV Style
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming round coffee table of Louis XV style in wood. This table is patinated in blue-gray tones giving it a vintage or shabby chic look. The legs are curved and the top of the legs...
Wood
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H 27.13 in W 54 in D 14.75 in
Baker Furniture French Provincial Louis XV Carved Walnut Console Table
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Provincial Louis XV style console table, hall table, or sofa table By Baker Furniture USA, Circa 1960s Carved walnut, with original brass hardware and moun...
Brass
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H 29.5 in W 37 in D 24 in
Antique 19th Century French Carved Oak Sofa Side Table Serpentine Louis XV
Located in Shreveport, LA
~Direct from France~ A lovely carved French side or sofa table with classic French Louis XV style and elegance. Beveled serpentine edge oak table top above the contoured apron. Ap...
Oak
Mid-Century Walnut and Marble Side Tables / Chests by Widdicomb, Pair
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a wonderful pair of French style walnut chests or side tables by John Widdicomb. They are marked and in very good condition.
Marble, Brass
Louis XV Style Green Painted Console Table, France 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Shallow 19th century green painted console table on cabriole legs in the Louis XV style, France.
Wood
Italian Louis XV Style Console Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Italian Louis XV style red painted console table with gilt wood trim and a faux marble (wood painted to look like marble) top, circa 1930-1950.
Wood, Paint
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H 18.9 in W 39.38 in D 18.9 in
20th Century Italian Louis XV Style Inlaid Walnut Coffee Table or Sofa Table
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Rare and fine quality Italian Louis XV style 1950s sofa table or coffee table. The table in walnut wood has a particular moved legs. The walnut top has a delicate inlay in fine maple...
Walnut
Louis XV Style Inlaid Nightstand or Side Table with Gold Fretwork
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Sumptuous French Louis XV style walnut inlaid nightstand or side table having two dovetailed drawers above a carved apron and exquisite gold fretwork and ormolu decoration. The fruit...
Brass
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H 33 in W 39.5 in D 18 in
Pair of Console / Sofa Tables Italian Paint Decorated Bases on Faux Marble Top
Located in Manhasset, NY
Pair of console table Italian paint decorated bases on faux marble top. This stunning pair of late 19th-early 20th century console tables have serpentine form in the Louis XV style w...
Wood
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H 18.9 in Dm 35.44 in L 18.9 in
Louis XV Style Mahogany and Marble-Top Round Coffee Table with Bronze Mounts
Located in Miami, FL
This elegant Louis XV style marble top coffee table is made out of mahogany with four tapered legs. The table has exquisite detailed bronze mounts and a bronze band around the marble...
Bronze