Hard cover with dust jacket, kept in mylar cover. English edition Metropolitan Museum of Art's publication for exhibition on the Parisian cabinetmaker's work. Fully illustrated 275 pages, 238 illustrations, including 101 color plates.

Honore Lannuier, Cabinet Maker From Paris A French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Arts & Photography

KENNY, Peter M.

Leben, Ulrich

Bretter, Frances F.

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georges Hoentschel (1855–1915) was a leading French interior designer in historic styles, head of a decorating firm, and ceramicist during the Belle Epoque. He found inspiration for his designs in medieval and 18th-century French art, which he avidly collected, amassing more than 4,000 pieces of furniture, woodwork, metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and textiles. After visiting Hoentschel in Paris, the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan acquired the collection and bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906 and 1916–17. These works greatly enriched the museum’s medieval art department and became the nucleus of its decorative arts department, profoundly influencing American tastes in the early 20th century. Through texts, early documentary photographs, and images of newly conserved works, Salvaging the Past goes behind the scenes to explore the history and influence of this remarkable collection.

Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907-2013

Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O.

Krohn, Deborah L.

History & Criticism

Bard Center

Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maître ébéniste Charles-Honoré Lannuier (1779–1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. Honoré, one of ten children, spent his formative years in France. From his much older brother Nicolas, a Parisian cabinetmaker who had attained the rank of master in 1783, he undoubtedly learned the "art and mystery" of cabinetmaking firsthand, honing his skills for a decade before departing for America in 1803. Not long after Honoré heralded his arrival with an advertisement in The New York Evening Post, he established his own workshop and wareroom at 60 Broad Street, and, by 1804, was listed in the New York City Directory. One of his most important commissions, seating furniture for the Common Council Chamber in New York's new City Hall—among the most imposing 19th-century public buildings in the United States—would be completed in 1812 and much of it still remains in situ. Lannuier traded on his French background and the cachet that it implied with the handsomely engraved bilingual label that he applied to his finished pieces, which emphasized that he was transmitting directly to America the Greco-Roman revival style popularized in Republican and Early Empire France. This near-obsessive labeling of his work has permitted scholars to appreciate the extent of his considerable legacy of classical-style furniture and its impact on the New York cabinetmaking establishment. While his career was cut short by his untimely death at age 40, when he was at the height of his creative powers, Lannuier's reputation continues to this day with documented examples of his furniture in the permanent collections of the foremost museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Winterthur Museum, and The White House. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honoré Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998 represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date. In four essays, extensively illustrated in color with overall views and details of Lannuier's finest creations, Ulrich Leben, deputy keeper Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, traces the little that is known of Lannuier's family and his origins in France; Peter M. Kenny, associate curator, American Decorative Arts, and administrator of The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores Lannuier's years spent in New York (1803–19) and examines in depth the subject of connoisseurship with regard to Lannuier's known oeuvre; and Frances F. Bretter, research associate, American Decorative Arts, Department of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Lannuier's relationship to his various illustrious clients, and their pronounced "taste for the French style." In addition, the many fine black-and-white photographs highlight technical aspects of Lannuier's furniture, as well as comparable examples by his contemporaries. The catalogue section that follows comprises about 125 documented works, arranged chronologically within specific categories, and contains information about materials and provenance, and collection and publication history, for each item. An appendix provides transcriptions of legal documents, including invoices and Lannuier's marriage contract and will; the latter two, in their original form, are on deposit in lower Manhattan. A selected biblioggraphy and an index complete this portrait of a creative and individualistic designer, who, in striving to transmit the "style antique" from France to America, prized novelty and innovation in tandem with craftsmanship of the highest caliber. [This book was originally published in 1998 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

Bernard Molitor is the only one of the great Parisian 'ebenistes' whose activity bridges the 'ancien regime' and the Bourbon Restoration, his career spanning a continuous period from 1785 to 1820. His work is a unique reflection of the numerous political and social changes of those years, including many an echo of the 'ancien regime' alongside a new sobriety during the Revolution and Republic, and in the end boldly looking forward to nineteenth century ecelecticism and to twentieth century Modernism. This first monograph and catalogue restores a key figure in the history of French furniture from previous oblivion. A detailed study of the life and work of Bernard Molitor (1755-1833), with a complete catalogue of the furniture.

Molitor: Ebeniste from the Ancien Regime to the Bourbon Restoration

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Philip Wilson Publishers

Honoré Lannuier Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

A contemporary of Duncan Phyfe, French-born New York cabinet maker Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined furniture style in the Late Federal period. This study of Lannuier's life and work discusses his family and origins in France, his clients, and his work. Approximately 275 illustrations, 100 in full color.

Honore Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ne

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive furniture style whilst in New York. Published to accompany an exhibition of his work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 1998, this is a study of Lannuier's life and work. Like Duncan Phyfe, of whom he was a contemporary, Lannuier made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads and seating furniture for the wealthy mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond and Savannah. The photographs in the book are accompanied by essays which discuss Lannuier's family and his origins in France, the years spent in New York, and his clients, in the context of connoisseurship and technical examinations of the furniture. Provenances and collection and publication history are also provided.

Lannuier, Charles Honore

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

The Royal Free Drawing School (Ecole royale gratuite de dessin) fulfilled the Enlightenment ideal of an education open to all, rich and poor, male and female, and an education founded not on apprenticeship and the teachings of one master, but open to ideas of all sorts and the practical application of universal principles. The surviving documents, engravings, drawings, and objects that can be traced to the School, as well as the impressive number of artisans who trained there - craftsmen such as Claude Odiot, sculptors such as Sebastien Cave, architects such as Charles Percier, and painters such as Girodet - and the important figures in eighteenth-century cultural life - such as Voltaire, Lavoisier, the duc de Choiseul, and Madame du' Barry - who were involved with the School attest to its enormous importance in the development of the decorative arts in France during the Ancien Regime and in the century that followed.

Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris

Oxford University Press

This monograph dedicated to the most spectacular example of Parisian First Empire interior architecture retraces the history of the building and the lives of its residents. The Hôtel de Beauharnais, constructed in 1713, gained renown during the Consulate period. In 1803, Josephine Bonaparte acquired the property for her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, and had the building renovated and decorated at great expense. At the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, it was sold to the King of Prussia and became an embassy during the nineteenth century. With its unique Consulate and Empire decor, the palace is an invaluable specimen of Parisian interior architecture. The result of more than ten years of research and restoration work, this book recounts three centuries of European political history through the lives of the Hôtel’s successive owners.

Empire Style: The Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris

Ebeling, Jörg

Photography & Video

Flammarion

Le style Empire: L'hôtel de Beauharnais à Paris

Eberling, Jörg

This first monograph dedicated to the most spectacular example of Parisian First Empire interior architecture retraces the history of the building and the lives of its residents. This meticulously researched and magnificently photographed volume beckons the reader inside France's most precious example of interior design from the Consulate period while retracing the lives of its most illustrious residents from the Regency to the present day.

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Honore Lannuier, Cabinet Maker From Paris A French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907-2013

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

Molitor: Ebeniste from the Ancien Regime to the Bourbon Restoration

Honore Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Honoré Lannuier Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris

Empire Style: The Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris

Le style Empire: L'hôtel de Beauharnais à Paris

Empire Style: The Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris