Magnificent Boulle Wardrobe With Richly Decorated Single Door, Concave-convex Shape From XIXth Century

Magnificent Boulle wardrobe with richly decorated single door, concave-convex shape from the XIXth century around 1870 The magnificent Boulle cabinet with unique door, richly decorated, concave-convex shape, decorated with brass and tortoiseshell inlay, decorated with bronze gilded and marble top, is an example of a French piece of furniture exceptionally representative of the Napoleon III era, referring to Boulle furniture dating from the time of Louis XIV. Boulle furniture owes its name to the cabinetmaker skinny Louis XIV named after André Charles Boulle, born in Paris in 1642. Boulle style marquetry is a method of decorating wooden furniture with a coating doubled simultaneously in several different materials: usually tortoiseshell (plates turtle armor) and brass, but it can also be tin, mother-of-pearl, ivory or exotic wood, ornaments of whimsical composition. Although it was not André Charles Boulle who invented this technique of decorating furniture, bringing it to the heights of crafts and fine crafts, he rightly gave it its name. Cabinetmakers of the Napoleonic era readily used this extremely long and complicated decorative technique to create elegant, almost overloaded and representative equipment. The combination of three dominant colors: the red of a colored scale, the black of the wood and the golden flash of the accessories gave spectacular visual effects, they were further accentuated by the brilliance obtained thanks to the high gloss polyethylene imposed on the furniture. . All of these intentions were carried out within the firm