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    Pair of antique armchairs in natural wood carved with flowers and staples.

    Flat back, whiplash armrests, curved legs.

    Filled to the bottom with cane.

    Stamped several times by Jean Avisse.

    Regency period work.

    Height: 90 cm

    width: 61 cm

    Depth : 52 cm

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    Pair of antique armchairs in natural wood carved with flowers and staples.

    Flat back, whiplash armrests, curved legs.

    Filled to the bottom with cane.

    Stamped several times by Jean Avisse.

    Regency period work.

    Height: 90 cm

    width: 61 cm

    Depth : 52 cm

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    Biography

    • THE REGENCY STYLE

      THE REGENCY STYLE

      The regency style is a transitional style between the Louis XIV and Louis XV styles. From a historical point of view, the Regency covers the period from 1715 to 1723. This corresponds to the minority of Louis XV, during which the kingdom is ruled by the regent Philippe of Orleans. In the field of decorative arts, the Regency style corresponds to the years 1700-1720. Cabinetmaking and carpentry then possessed the nobility and symmetry peculiar to the Louis XIV style, but got rid of its more formal and solemn aspects in favor of a suppleness and grace announcing the Louis XV. In short, a new spirit, the spirit of the eighteenth century, made up of gallantry and civility, is blowing through the decorative arts and initiating an evolution tending to replace heroism with the kind. If Boulle is very clearly the best representative of the Louis XIV style, Charles Cressent is for the Regency style. As a sculptor, Cressent himself modeled his own bronzes and supervised their production. For the ornamental reasons, he often drew his inspiration from the drawings of Robert de Cotte, and relied on the taste of Gillot and Watteau for the figures and in particular the famous antics. From Watteau, he borrowed his charming busts of smiling young women, which adorn the tops of the curved feet of his flat desks. In keeping with the spirit of the times, Cressent used, for his veneers, woods that contrasted strongly with the gilding of the bronzes, namely amaranth, rosewood and violet wood. gives the most complete vision of the evolution or the transition between Louis XIV and Louis XV. The major difference between a late Louis XIV chair and one already belonging to the Regency style is located at the level of the armrest consoles which, in the second case, are slightly set back to allow the basket dresses to find a place there. . Typical of the Regency, are also on the one hand the cuffs, on the other hand, in the belt, a frontal crosspiece in carved wood forming with the base an uninterrupted sinuous line, then the gradual disappearance of the spacer and finally the choice of a backrest framed by an exposed wooden frame.

      The curved feet, instead of ending in a doe's hooves, generally have a small volute, sometimes embellished with an acanthus leaf. The most tenacious Louis XIV elements are the rectilinear uprights of the backrest and the quadrangular shape of the seat. When the transition is perfectly accomplished, the chair will no longer have a single straight line, thus announcing the Louis XV style.The primitive Régence chest of drawers, equipped with three rows of drawers practically joining the floor, will experience an evolution towards the so-called tomb chest. Under its marble top, the cabinet will affect a curved profile, forming a strongly convex middle part. The Louis XV chest of drawers, with its lightness and the finesse of its long curved legs supporting two drawers, will definitely oppose the heaviness of its predecessors.