Focus on our most iconic armchairs: Louis style armchairs XV and Louis XVI.
We love them so much that we decided to decline in many ways !
And to help you distinguish them easily, we chose today to tell you about.

They may seem similar, but their history and some details differentiate them well.
Listen, the following significant risk of interest to you !

The Louis XV style 1730-1760

Under the reign of Louis XV, the bourgeois houses and mansions are divided into smaller, more intimate apartments in which we find more and more ladies.
This new way of life gives rise to the creation of furniture and seats tailored to the female gender.
The Louis XV-style furniture sweeps a wind of creativity and modern decorative arts of the period.
He brings along convenience, charm and lightness to conform better to the requirements of customers looking for comfort and refinement.

The seat became the flagship Louis XV furniture and cabinet makers of the time compete to respond to commands issued by women and for women.
The seat Louis XV adapts therefore easily to smaller and more feminine interior.
He dresses finesse and elegance, is tinged with tenderness and lightness to offer its ladies all the comfort and privacy desired.

This delicacy is found especially in the creation of golden seats and lined with silk, fabrics and tapestries made the point.
The armchairs are recessed to allow ladies in robes sit easier.
The legs are curved and shaped animal paws like crowbars.
The sleepers are sculpted in a noble woods such as beech or walnut.

You'll understand the Louis XV style reinvents the art of interior decoration.
Aesthetics rock, also called "rococo" celebrates the beauty of nature. The patterns in bronze that can be found in chests such as rocks, shells, natural stones and foliage are perfectly matched to asymmetric forms, with sinuous curves and excessive ornaments.

Preceded by the Regency, Louis XV-style or French style is followed by the transition style.

The Louis XVI style 1774-1785

After the Transition style, the Louis XVI style moved with the throne of the small-son of Louis XV in 1774.
Louis XVI, unlike his predecessors, has simple tastes and does not have much interest in art if not for the mechanism to furniture but the queen Marie Antoinette loves luxury and indulges decoration.
She had built in the royal residences of Versailles, the Tuileries, Compiègne and Fontainebleau apartments according to their tastes.
It places an order with the greatest representatives of crafts of its time.

Under his leadership, the traditional ornamental repertory is enriched with flowers, flower baskets, musical and country attributes and ribbon knots she particularly appreciates.
It thus contributes to the Louis XVI style, in his first period, the delicate touch that is its charm.

This new furniture and decoration trend is reintroducing the forms borrowed from neoclassical architecture.
Louis XVI style breaks definitively with the rococo style sign and return to straight lines and sobriety.

The legs of Louis XVI armchairs are most often turned pillar-shaped thinned and are decorated with fine straight flutes or spirals but may also be straight, tapered or canted.

The supports of the armrests are curved, fluted or turned shaped balusters. The record of Louis XVI chair or chaise Louis XVI chair will take the characteristic form of medallion, crest or cocked hat.

In the second part of the style, the use of mahogany generalizes and ornamentation became increasingly sober.

Louis XVI style ends around 1785, shortly before the French Revolution and give way to the Directoire style.

And if we adopted this style in our decoration ?

If you like the eighteenth century it means you can have your sights on a Louis XV style chair or Louis XVI or both.
It will be the asset charm of your home!
With all this style is enabled, not afraid to break the rules and do not hesitate having to mix styles to create a unique atmosphere.
You are free to mix the curves of the Louis XV style to the sobriety of his successor or more contemporary elements.

This style comes in a chic and warm universe, composed of natural and timeless colors ranging from white to light gray, through beige and taupe. Sometimes the whole is enhanced frank tones like black, navy blue, peacock blue or red.
The gold spikes and money they bring about a touch of elegance and refinement.

We were inspired by the antique furniture to create our own designs and offer a wide range of colors and materials.
We even allowed some fantasies to bring a touch of originality to this style that is rather classic.
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