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A Set of Eight Neoclassical Leather Upholstered Parcel-Gilt and Painted Side Chairs, Possibly South German, Circa 1835
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A Set of Eight Neoclassical Leather Upholstered Parcel-Gilt and Painted Side Chairs, Possibly South German, Circa 1835
height 35 1/2 in.; width 18 1/2 in.; depth 19 in.
90 cm., 47 cm., 48.3 cm.
Gerhard Hojer and Hans Ottomeyer, Die Möbel der Residenz, Part III, Munich-New York, Prestel Verlag, 1997
pp. 140-153
This set of chairs with its prominent use of anthemia, demonstrates the influence of the French Empire style on international design and architects and can be related to designs by Leo von Klenze (1784-1864). Leo von Klenze, who worked as an apprentice to Percier and Fontaine in Paris, was the court architect of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. He was responsible for Königsbau – an Italianate extension to Munich’s Royal Residenz - where he was in charge of every detail of the new royal apartments, including the furniture, all made in 1834-35 in a late Empire style, the majority of it parcel-gilt on a ivory ground in a very similar vein to the present set of chairs.
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