Offered by GSLR Antiques
Pair of elegant lacquered and gilded wood cabriolet armchairs decorated with flowers. Beautiful model with generous proportions, backrest being higher than usual gives them all their elegance. They are covered with a precious emerald green crushed silk velvet with a floral pattern, enhanced with gilded braiding. Parisian work from the Louis XV period, one of the two armchairs bears the stamp of Louis Delanois.
Louis Delanois (1731-1792), master on July 27, 1761, is one of the greatest seat carpenters of the 18th century. His clientele is particularly brilliant with the Count d'Artois, the Prince de Condé for Chantilly and the Palais Bourbon, the Duke de Chartres and the Countess du Barry for her Versailles apartments and for Louveciennes. He is also the supplier of the King of Poland Stanislas II for the Warsaw Palace. He is at the origin of very avant-garde creations marked by the renewal of forms and decorations from 1750 with the uncovering of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. If the majority of his work is composed of Louis XV seats, Delanois thus plays a primordial influence on the evolution of the styles of the time and more precisely on the early formation of the Louis XVI style in the middle of the reign of Louis XV. It is said that the medallion backrest very fashionable under Louis XVI is precisely an invention of Delanois.
For the restoration, we chose to cover these beautiful armchairs with a precious silk velvet from Tassinari and Chatel. Formerly lacquered and gilded wood (gilding is worn out) Beautiful amateur set.
Width 60 cm
Depth 73 cm
Backrest height 101 cm
Seat height 51 cm
