Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood, bois satiné, ebony and marquetry commode à vantaux: Coquille, Françoi ...

On the bay, you have sunsets, and “twinkly lights and a little bit of a horizon,” she says, “whereas the ocean, unless ...

What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...

According to the case, filed in 2016, 11 chairs and armchairs, presented as commissioned by relatives of Louis XV and Louis XVI, were sold for a total of €3.7m through Parisian galleries and Sot ...

A deeper deception surfaces The scheme came to light in 2016, when France’s culture ministry announced it was investigating furniture worth €2.7 million, including two Louis XV chairs ...

I saw a couple seated on an elevated platform in Louis XV chairs with a pair of roaring leopard statues next to them. In a matter of seconds, the duo were spun around into a secret lair ...

and Nicolas Ghesquière that resemble the marquetry and gold scrolls seen nearby on Boulle cabinets and Louis XV chairs. Gabet traces fashion’s enduring fascination with the 18th-century to such ...

Starck explains that the Louis Ghost chair is about “dematerialisation and common memory”. “It was designed (during the reign of) Louis XV and it became an archetype. That means I have not ...

He spent his youth grifting around Europe in pursuit of an education that would let him call himself a doctor, and thus qualify for a professorial chair ... by Louis XV. The two men never met.

an 18th-century style gown of apricot-hued satin with contrasting velvet black touches and a gilded Louis XV chair upholstered with tapestry. Meyer and Sargent may well have discussed her ...

Together, they allegedly made chairs which they said had decorated the lustrous salons of the likes of Countess du Barry, a favorite mistress of King Louis XV, and Marie-Antoinette. In 2016 ...

Christie’s landmark Rothschild auction series—the first North American sales of objects belonging to one of the great collecting families in history—ended its first night Wednesday with ...