Louis XIV style furniture


	mirror, commode, bureau, table, casket and stand in
	Louis XIV style furniture
	Louis XIV, Le Roy Soleil, ruled France for 72 years until he died in 1715. It was the longest reign of any French or other major European monarch. He was born in 1638. Louis XIV is a French furniture style of rounded forms and curved lines. Baroque furniture is associated with Louis XIV. The construction, during his reign, of The Chateau de Versailles is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe. Masks, heads of sphinxes and satyrs were all included among the fashionable motifs modeled in gilded bronze. Among the principal woods used in Louis XIV furniture where ebony, walnut, and oak. Various woods such as almond, boxwood, holly and pear wood where employed in marquetry work. Richly carved chairs, canapes and tables, with scrolled legs, where generally made more brilliant by gilding.

kingwood, ebony commode

bureau

Museum Furniture