Hand Carved Louis Xv Fireplace Mantel
Antique Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Wood, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
Antique Early 18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Limestone
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century French Rococo Revival Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Late 19th Century French Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 18th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century English Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique 19th Century English Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak, Wood
Antique 1830s Italian Louis XV Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century German Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
Antique 19th Century Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 1830s Italian Louis XV Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Other
Antique Early 1900s French Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique Early 1900s French Belle Époque Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mir...
Silver Leaf
Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Antique Early 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Antique 19th Century European Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Breccia Marble
Antique Mid-18th Century French Rococo Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone, Marble
1990s Spanish Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble, Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Oak
Antique 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels
Statuary Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Onyx, Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Limestone
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Belgian Black Marble
Antique 19th Century Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Stone
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A Close Look at Louis Xv Furniture
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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Finding the Right Fireplaces-mantels for You
While we likely wouldn’t mourn the invention of home heating and air-conditioning, these innovations did tragically reduce the widespread need for fireplaces and mantels in our living rooms.
Once an essential fixture in all homes, the fireplace, which, along with the chimney, is as old as the Middle Ages, was actually rendered redundant with the advent of the cast-iron heating stove during the 18th century. Victorian-era heating stoves were popular in the common areas of a living space for their capacity to heat as well as for their lack of smoke compared to fireplaces. However, improvements in craftsmanship as well as the Industrial Revolution meant that fireplaces were evolving in form and functionality.
Even as HVAC systems would eventually see to it that fireplaces weren’t a necessity, no mechanically engineered thermal heating and ventilation technology can replicate the feeling of warmth and camaraderie that a flickering fire guarantees. We just love a good fireplace.
“With antique fireplaces, you get heart, soul, character and architecture,” says Tony Ingrao, a Manhattan-based interior designer who purchased an important 16th-century French limestone fireplace for a client’s Greenwich Village townhouse.
Vintage fireplaces and mantels have earned their coveted position as desirable focal points in any room over the course of a staggering evolution in design that has yielded everything from intricately carved works of limestone to sleek works of wood paneling and rolled steel.
As log after log turns into ash, these iconic designs prove their timelessness and value, monetarily and as prized decorative monuments. Whether you seek to simply warm a space or completely transform it, an eye-catching new mantel for your blazing hearth — be it an elegant neoclassical design, a marvelous work of marble in the Louis XV style or an unconventional contemporary variation — is the perfect solution.
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