François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770 – 1841) oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825. The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France The son of Georges Jacob, an outstanding chairmaker who worked in the Louis XVI style and Directoire styles of the earlier phase of Neoclassicism and executed many royal commissions, Jacob-Desmalter, in partnership with his older brother, assumed the family workshop in 1796. Georges Jacob ( Cheny, Burgundy 6 July 1739 — 1814 master 1765 was one of the two most prominent Parisian master Menuisiers Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and 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 Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and Freed from the Parisian guild restrictions of the Ancien Régime, the workshop was now able to produce veneered case-pieces (ébénisterie) in addition to turned and carved seat furniture (menuiserie). A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers Ancien Régime ( pronounced: /ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim/ refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in When his brother died, Jacob-Desmalter drew his father from retirement and began to develop one of the largest furniture workshops in Napoleonic Paris.
Furniture in the Empire style produced by the firm of Jacob-Desmalter et Cie ("and Company") in rue Meslée mainly employed mahogany veneers with gilt-bronze mounts. The Empire Style, sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, is an early-19th-century Design movement in Architecture, Furniture The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored wood originally the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Seat furniture forms, of mahogany when they were not painted or gilded, derived inspiration from seats and thrones of Antiquity, recognizable in details from bas-reliefs and on Greek vases. Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural History centered on the Mediterranean Thanks to its hardy nature pottery bulks large in the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because we have so much of it (some 100000 vases are recorded in the Corpus Jacob-Desmalter received commissions from Pauline Borghese, Napoleon's sister in Rome, and the Empresses Joséphine and Marie Louise, for whom he supplied numerous pieces for the Château de Malmaison, the Château de Compiègne, the Tuileries Palace, and other imperial residences. Marie Paulette (Pauline Bonaparte Princesse Française Princess and Duchess of Guastalla ( October 20, 1780 - June 9, 1825) was the Joséphine de Beauharnais (born Marie Josèphe Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie June 23 1763 &ndash May 29 1814) was the first Marie Louise of Austria (Maria Luisa von Österreich French: Marie Louise d'Autriche; Italian: Maria Luisa d'Austria; b The Château de Malmaison is a country house (or Château) in the city of Rueil-Malmaison about 12 km (7 mi from Paris. The Château de Compiègne is a French Château, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. The Palais des Tuileries was a royal Palace in Paris. It stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed Important commissions included a magnificent cradle built for the infant King of Rome, and the most expensive single item, the jewel cabinet for the Empress, delivered in 1812. In 1809, Jacob-Desmalter, principal supplier of furniture to the Emperor, delivered his most valuable order, the jewel cabinet designed for the Empress Joséphine's state bedroom in the Tuileries (soon to be used by Marie-Louise). The Palais des Tuileries was a royal Palace in Paris. It stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed It was designed by the architect Charles Percier and embellished with gilt-bronze plaques: the central one, according to its original description, depicts the "Birth of the Queen of the Earth, to whom Cupids and Goddesses hasten with their Offerings" by the Empire's most eminent bronzier, Pierre-Philippe Thomire, modelled by Antoine-Denis Chaudet. Charles Percier ( Paris, August 22, 1764 – Paris September 5, 1838) was a neoclassical French Architect Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751 — 1843 a French sculptor was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763 - 1810 was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style. [1]
Greatly dependent on orders from Napoleon, the firm went bankrupt in 1813, when Imperial debts mounted during the last phase of the Napoleonic Empire. The Empire of the French (1804-1814 also known as the Empire of France, Greater French Empire, First French Empire, French Empire, or Jacob-Desmalter, however, managed to resurrect the company and commissions revived after 1815; he continued to run it until his son, Alphonse-George, succeeded him in 1825.
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- Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les ébénistes Pariens du dix-neuvième siècle. ]
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