Empire Furniture

Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti's Empire Decorated Home

Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti founder of Vivre.com travels the world in search of artists that create beautiful home furnishings, clothing, jewelry, and gift items. Native of Switzerland, Lorenzotti set out 17 years ago for America, and since she has built a mini-empire, generating about $50 million a year by retailing luxury [...]

Empire Furniture From Stanley Weiss Collection

Neoclassical Tables, c. 1820 From The Stanley Weiss Collection

A dealer at one time was selling a large selection of Empire Furniture From the Stanley Weiss Collection on ebay and I managed to save some of my favorite pictures. The fabrics on the various settees were just incredible, along with the veneered furniture. This collection [...]

Brian McCarthy's Empire Style Home

Designer Brian McCarthy has been known for his partiality to French Empire furniture and European styled interiors. After working with Parish-Hadley for many years, he opened up his own firm in 1991, and since then has been featured in various publications including Elle Décor, Vogue, Life, New York Magazine’s 100 Best and many others. New [...]

Empire Decorating: Gilt Ormolu

New York Social Diary had a really interesting article in November 2010 with interior classical designer Darren Henault and his wonderful 19th-century Fifth Avenue mansion in New York. He tells New York Social Diary that he was once an account executive for an advertising agency, and it wasn’t until a friends dad who was architect noticed he had [...]

Empire Furniture: Powerful Empire Sofas

Mike Bell featured this lovely Empire style canape in an unusual dazzling pink fabric. Mike Bell Antiques are known for their period furniture, reproductions and prestigious antiques. What is a canape anyway? Its shape is distinct from other sofas of the period, including the chaise longue, and is a variation on the “sofa”. Frequently matching chairs were made to go [...]

Rich Wood Empire Chests and Dressers

Empire Commode Dresser Chest Seller Paul Klienwald Art and Antiques

Petite Empire Console with Marble Top, France 19th century Seller William Word Fine Antiques

Mahogany was often the wood of choice during 1804-1815. Either blond, dark, moiré, figured, or flame wood is found to be the prime choice when it came to furniture. It is [...]

Empire Furniture: Klismos Chair

Klismos Chair

The Klismos Chair is a luxuriourous chair developed by the ancient Greeks. The chair gained popularity by 500 BC as we often see illustrated on Greek pottery, and throughout the art at that time. The Klismos chair became popular again during the French Directoire, English Regency periods and throughout the American [...]

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