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Directoire style describes a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design, concurrent with the post-Revolution French Directory (November 2, 1795 through November 10, 1799). The Executive Directory ( Directoire exécutif) was a body of 5 single-male Directors that held executive power in France following The style is distinct for use of neoclassical architectural forms, minimal carving, planar expanses of highly grained veneers, and applied decorative painting.

The Directoire style was primarily established by the architects and designers Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pier François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853). Charles Percier ( Paris, August 22, 1764 – Paris September 5, 1838) was a neoclassical French Architect Pierre François Léonard Fontaine ( September 20, 1762, Pontoise, near Paris – October 10, 1853, Paris) was a neoclassical In its use of Neoclassical architectural form and decorative motifs the style anticipates the slightly later Empire style. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and The Empire Style, sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, is an early-19th-century Design movement in Architecture, Furniture

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Abbott, James Archer. Jansen Furniture. Acanathus: 2007. ISBN 978-0926494459.
Pegler, Martin. The Dictionary of Interior Design. Fairchild Publications: 1983. ASIN B0006ECV48.

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