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Louis XV style

The true Louis XV rococo style occupies the middle years of that king’s reign and is arguably furniture’s richest period. The finest aristocratic homes had winter and summer sets of curving furniture, elegantly made from up to 50 types of wood that were carved and ornamented to the highest standards with metalwork, chinoiserie, gilt, mirrors, porcelain plaques, and bright colors. The bergère easy chair, first made c. 1725, proliferated as did the cabriole chair, the duchesse-type rolltop model made for the king himself, and the mechanically ingenious dual-purpose “secretaire à Capuchin” or “à la Bourgogne.”

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In France, from the 1720s to the 1770s, the Louis XV style was developing as a light and feminine decor with a strong Oriental influence, a little looser from the gilded exuberance and straight lines of Louis XIV.

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Then there was the enquiring mind of Henry Cyril Paget, who toured the continent for three years with an entire orchestra, five truckloads of luggage and his own car, decorated in the Louis XV style, and with a perfumed exhaust.

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