MAHOGANY LOUIS XVI CHAIR SENÉ
Louis XVI style chair inspired by Sené.
Solid mahogany frame, hand carving and varnish finishings.
Leather upholstering with gilded embossing details.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené is a great Louis XVI style chair maker who became master menuisier in 1769.
For this reason, he supplied the French royal family with furniture.
Sené crafted a particularly famous bed for Queen Marie-Antoinette for the Chateau de Fontainebleau.
The characteristics of Louis XVI style chairs are elegance, neoclassicism, lightness and simplicity of form.
Georges Jacob and Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené are the most notable craftsmen of Louis XVI chairs.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo: Thomas Hennocque
