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A "Chinese" lounge.
This Chinese cabinet was created for the Palazzo Reale in Turin (the Royal Palace), it is an extraordinary example of the fanciful Rococo style, projected by Filippo Juvarra. It is a complex, intricate ‘boiserie’ enriched by Chinese red and black lacquers, framed by golden wood. The furniture is made of golden wood, in Rococo style.

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A "boiserie" with Chinese details made for the Champs Castle.
Christophe Huet created the boiserie following the ideas of Madame Pompadour, to replace some arabesques painted by Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain.

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A salon of the Hotel de Soubise.

This is a high example of the Rococo style.
In 1738 Boucher exhibited three panels made for the Hotel and later would become the protégé of the Marchioness.

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A lounge in a modern house with furniture in Louis XV style, the typical taste of Madame Pompadour.

This is the house of my dreams!

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A lounge with wooden panels, painted with subject taken from the ‘Fairy Tales’ by La Fontaine.

Originally they were in a palace in Place Vendome now they are shown at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

Author: Oudry Jean-Baptiste

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Polychrome Room (FRANCE 1745 Carnavalet Museum)

These panels of unknown origin have been painted in the manner of Martin varnish, a technique perfected by the Martin brothers in the 1740s, which made colours more vivid, like porcelain.

In the corner of the room, there is a very beautiful corner cupboard, one of a pair, bearing the identification mark of the cabinet-maker Latz, and in the foreground a writing table by Delorme, accompanied by a pair of Queen armchairs, superb examples of Louis XV chairs.

Paintings, sculptures and objects decorating the room are devoted to philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment.