Furnishings and Utensils

Birth and Renaissance in Florence

Advances in obstetrics have changed our lifestyles. The danger that the birth once represented for both mother and child is now thankfully forgotten. To acknowledge the success of a birth, the Ren...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Nov 1.

Short-Lived Luxury at Berlin Court 1 Reply

Varnish manufacturer and designer coming from Spa in current Belgium, Gerhard Dagly was installed since 1686 in Berlin, where he developed a style of furniture and furnishing of great refinement in...

Tagged: Dagly

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 29.

Tell me Jean, Am I Beauty in this Mirror ? 1 Reply

In the catalog for Christie's sale in London on September 24, I viewed an incongruous and unexpected piece. Its fable worth destiny shows how can be transmitted to the modern world the influence of...

Tagged: Doré

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Sep 25.

Savages and Bourgeois 1 Reply

We are in Mâcon, near Lyons, in the year XIII of the French revolutionary calendar (it lists more often today as the year 1804-1805). An entrepreneur of that city, Joseph Dufour, invented the "pano...

Tagged: Charvet, Dufour

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jun 19.

The Giant Globes of Coronelli 1 Reply

Starting with a visit to the archives of this group. In the first article (in French only), I was discussing the pair of globes of the princes of Liechtenstein, sold 800 K € fees included by Christ...

Tagged: Coronelli

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki May 9.

A Nearly Extinct Mineral, the Blue John 1 Reply

The Blue John was used for decoration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a blue variety of fluorite, which is extracted from a Derbyshire cavern. The French called it "Ble...

Tagged: Regency

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Apr 10.

2009 Auctions

AUCTION HOUSES referred below : Binoche Renaud Giquello Site Drouot-Presse Bonhams Site Press Christie's Site Press Dobiaschofsky Site Press Sotheby's Site Press NEXT SALES Sotheby's, Paris, Nov...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Mar 28.

2008 Auction History

All Results in BOLD As Lot 3 at Christie's in Paris on December 16 (sale 5555), a pair of candelabra, estimated € 1.5 million, is attributed to Thomire and Rémond. (UNSOLD) Koller, auction house ...

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 24, 2008.

Dugourc and Thomire propagate the French style 1 Reply

To make a candelabra, you first draw an athénienne, about 80 cm high, and you top it with a vase where you add six springing light arms shaped as a bouquet, for a total height reaching 1.20 m. Fore...

Tagged: Dugourc, Thomire

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Dec. 18, 2008.

Sèvres porcelain and giltbronze candelabra 1 Reply

For luxuous pieces of French furniture and furnishings of eighteenth century, I know a good address: Sotheby's Paris. As I have already written in the group Furniture, this house brings great decor...

Tagged: Sèvres, Thomire, Boizot

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct. 3, 2008.

The mirrors of Line Vautrin 1 Reply

Line Vautrin was a designer of furnishings whose very original outputs are increasingly sought. Starting from cellulose acetate, she obtained in the 1940s a material, named talosel, that suited her...

Tagged: Vautrin

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug. 5, 2008.

Freshness of a pot-pourri vase 1 Reply

On April 9, at the Galerie Charpentier, the showroom of Sotheby's in Paris was arranged as a luxurious castle interior, according to the practices of this auction house whose decoration is always v...

Tagged: louisxv, qianlong, kangxi, vase

Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jul. 9, 2008.