Settee French Louis XVI Period Gilded Blue Velvet

Italian antique settee of the period Louis XVI. Made of fine walnut wood and velvet covering, characterized by a simple and essential but very elegant line. We recommend replacing th...

A fine French Louis XVI style carved giltwood settee, water gilded and newly upholstered in blue velvet.

A Fine Pair of French Louis XVI Style Carved-wood Cream-Lacquered Settees, probably by Maison Jansen. The rectangular shaped Love Seats, each with scr...

French Louis XVI style painted settee or sofa with carving detail and ending in hoof feet, early 19th century.

French Louis XV transition provençal settee, patinated wood frame, recent pale yellow down upholstery in pale yellow stripes and greenery. Though th...

A Louis XV period Canapé à Oreilles serpentine-shaped sofa. Featuring carved detailing, decorated with floral motifs and acanthus, with original Verd...

This is a sofa Corbeille which means Basket because it wrapped you inside the sofa. Beautiful Louis XVI line with little pineapples on the frame. The fabric is in good condition. Won...

Incorporating 'Stones of Bath' into this settee is inspired the pipers use of one of the five designs commissioned for their centenary, ‘The Glyders’, as loose covers for the chairs at their home Fawley bottom which John Betjeman called ‘Fawley Bum’. 'Stones of Bath' is one of five John Piper (1903-1992) designs commissioned by Arthur Sanderson & Sons in 1959 for their 1960 centenary celebrations. In 1962 Sanderson's screen printed ‘Stones of Bath’ on their Sanderlin fabric, a satinised linen which gave the design a shimmering, restless texture. This was ideally suited to the play of light depicted on the stone in the architectural repeat of buildings in the city of Bath. A piece of this fabric which is in the collection of the V&A was exhibited at the John Piper retrospective held at the Tate Gallery, London, 1983. Reference: 'Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970', Cat. No. 74. From the late 1950s-early 1960s there was interest in painterly textiles that demonstrated the unique potential of screen printing, with its ability to capture the quality of brush-stroked color. 'The monumental grandeur of many artists' textiles in the early 1960s was necessary if they were to work in the large scale architectural interiors of the era which witnessed a rapid growth in new public buildings, all which required furnishing with suitably prestigious fabrics'. Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970 by Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain...

Louis XVI style settee, France, early 20th century. Newly upholstered in chocolate brown velvet. Original painted and hand-carved wood frame with tapered pre-Victorian style legs and...

This 1900s French Louis XVI settee showcases the refined elegance characteristic of the neoclassical era. The carved wooden frame retains trace...