The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . ament, and more correct from anarchitectural point of view, than those attributed toBoulle himself, whose designs had much of the loose-ness and freedom of the prevalent Louis Ouatorze. At the death of Jean Mace, the kings ebeniste, in1672, who had formerly lived in the royal galleries ofthe Louvre, the logement and office of ebeniste to theking had become vacant, and Boulle on the recom-me
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . ament, and more correct from anarchitectural point of view, than those attributed toBoulle himself, whose designs had much of the loose-ness and freedom of the prevalent Louis Ouatorze. At the death of Jean Mace, the kings ebeniste, in1672, who had formerly lived in the royal galleries ofthe Louvre, the logement and office of ebeniste to theking had become vacant, and Boulle on the recom-mendation of Colbert, minister to Louis XIV., wasappointed as the successor of Mace, and was installedin his rooms in the Louvre in the year 1673. He na<^previously executed some important work for the king,and was known as the ablest ebeniste at that time inParis. The origin of the Boulle marquetry can be traced tothe Indian, Persian, and Damascus encrusted inlaysin ivory, ebony, and metal, that found their way toVenice, Portugal, Spain, and France in the MiddleAges. These works consisted chiefly of caskets, coffers,and small pieces of furniture In the inventories of THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 65. Figure 41 66 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER Charles V. of France (1380) mention is made of lec-terns and coffers of inlaid ivory or bone, in ebony,and similar works are mentioned in the inventories ofCharles VI. (1418), and of Anne of Brittany (1498).These are the earliest notices of marquetry furniturethat was made in France, and was probably an imita-tion of Oriental work. In the Renaissance period Francois I. bought somemagnificent furniture of Indian workmanship, inlaidwith mother-of-pearl, from Portuguese merchants, andmention is made of chairs, tables, coffers, cabinets, andmirror-frames that belonged to Queen Marie de Medicis(1600), the Cardinal dAmboise (1500), and othergreat persons of the French Court, all of which workswere made in marquetry. In France before the sixteenth
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