Table of style of french furniture - English version

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What is the Table of Styles?

A summary of the most typical and simple elements that have characterised the evolution of French furniture over ten centuries of history. Illustrations stripped of all the gold with which the cabinetmaker of the great centuries flattered his clients.

It's not surprising that some 'styles' straddle two eras.

And while the 'Louis XVI' style came into its own twenty-five years before the advent of the king of that name, most of them came into their own several decades later.

This is because, for ten centuries, furniture, like everything else, evolved at the speed of the horse alone, while in the following century - our own - steam, oil, electricity and the atom overturned even the laws of cabinet-making, offering us the pyramid in the Louvre and the oddities of the Futuroscope...