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Second empire style furniture.
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Chairs were elaborately upholstered with fringes tassels and expensive fabrics.
Comfort was the first priority of second empire furniture.
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The general effect is monumental and ornate appropriate to the style s napoleonic roots.
It gained its greatest popularity in the u s.
Decorative details included iron cresting on the roof heavily bracketed cornices quoins and balustrades.
French furniture styles second empire 1848 1870 during this period furniture makers drew indiscriminately from all previous periods and sources which resulted in an eclecticism that had considerable historicist charm and even inventive appeal.
Sartre and his fellow left bank intellectuals were vocally rebelling against the conservative tendency in french politics philosophy and aesthetics.
After 1820 and is considered the second more robust phase of the neoclassical style which earlier had been expressed in the adam style in britain and louis seize or louis xvi in france.
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Second empire furniture was found all over paris during sartre s time and still is and many of the drawing rooms and hotels of the era remained in place in the 1940s and still do.
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American empire 1800 to 1840 the american empire period took more influence.
The early american period was really the first period where a distinct style began to appear within furniture pieces in the colonies that went beyond mere practicality.
The structure of chairs and sofas was usually entirely hidden by the upholstery or ornamented with copper shell or other decorative elements.
As with other victorian trends second empire ornamentation was inspired and unstinting.
American empire is a french inspired neoclassical style of american furniture and decoration that takes its name and originates from the empire style introduced during the first french empire period under napoleon s rule.
Ornamentation and decoration are the focus points of this period.
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In a way the artistic codes of the napoleon iii style also called second empire style were presented at the exhibition of 1844 during the reign of louis philippe d orléans.
