Kidney Table In The Taste Of Canabas, Louis XVI

Table-reading light mahogany and mahogany veneer made by a cabinetmaker in fact the work of Joseph Gegenbach Canabas said. Louis XVI, in the 1780s. Meas. (H x W x D). 69 x 118 x 53 cm. The table-reading light has a kidney-shaped tray, or kidney. In the center, a pull tab pushing an iron mechanism releases the reading light filled with tawny leather. The same system releases the two side compartments mahogany veneered. The cabinet rests on a pierced lyre base in which both feet are joined by a spacer. The legs end with wheels mahogany and gilt bronze. This moves the urge this flying furniture near a light source. In the style of Canabas This charming table-reading light is closer to the achievements of Canabas. This cabinetmaker, following his stay in Britain, returned to France with new forms inspired by English and Chinese modes, and mahogany as the preferred material. Throughout his career, Canabas performed similar furniture, bronze without ornamentation or with bronzes arranged sparingly. Following him or contemporaneously, many cabinetmakers working the noble mahogany had copied and followed its models that remain in fashion until the turn of the nineteenth century by the purity of their neoclassical line.