French Louis XV style ormolu-mounted Grand Palatial Vitrine Stand after the model by François Linke
Ref#ST-1712 | Description
Our elaborate replica of the French Louis xv style gilt-ormolu-mounted veneer inlaid kingwood and mahogany Luxury Vitrine Stand after the model by François Linke, Paris, early 20th century;
With variegated moulded marble top above tapering sides with three convex molded glazed panels framed with a gilt-ormolu foliate strips below astonishing large gilt-ormolu chute with female espagnolette at each foremost angle with acanthus shell scrolls and C works, elongated with fine leafy trim to the legs and connected with suspending festooned foliate shell mounts, with one door houses two glass shelves having velvet capitoné upholstered back and ormolu foliate keyhole escutcheon, stands on tapering legs and terminating in wrap around scrolled acanthus sabots. The curved bottom contour with foliate ormolu filet and mounted with richly chiseled foliate and waterfalls ormolu mount.
EXCEPTIONAL PIECE OF ART.
Ref#ST-1712
H:153 x W:54 x D:46cm
Louis XV Style | François Linke
François Linke
Francois Linke (1855-1946) was arguably the leading Parisian cabinetmaker of the Belle Epoque the glittering age of fashionable French society, whose influence was felt throughout the world.
Determined to outshine the competition at the Exhibition, Linke had set about creating the most ambitious pieces he could envisage, and more extravagant than had ever been displayed before. The items he exhibited marked a transition from the historicist interpretation of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, an interpretation that was the mainstay of his nearest rivals, to something startlingly new and vital in its immediacy. Together with Leon Message he developed a new style for the 1900 Exhibition that paid homage to the Louis XV rococo in the fluidity of its approach, but an approach fused with the lively flowing lines of the contemporary and progressive 'art nouveau'.
This risky endeavour was a resounding success, and with his reputation established, La Maison Linke became the pre-eminent furniture house until outset of the Second World War. The technical brilliance of his work and the artistic change that it represented was never to be repeated. His showrooms expanded into prestigious premises in Paris, in the Place Vendome as well as the Faubourg St. Antoine where his workshop had been established. He embarked on many important commissions in the years up to the outbreak of the First World War, making and designing furniture for leading international industrialists and bankers.
After the 1914-1918 World War, Linke undertook the extraordinary commission to furnish the Ras al-Tin Palace in Alexandria for King Fuad of Egypt, possibly the largest single furniture commission ever conceived, eclipsing even Versailles. Linke flourished and remained active until the middle years of the 1930s and died in 1946.
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