A suite of four Louis XVI style giltwood fauteuils

These delightful armchairs, or fauteuils as they are known - wooden seats in the form of armchairs with open sides and upholstered arms - were crafted in the early twentieth century, imitating the beautiful earlier Louis XVI style, which consisted of a more refined, Neoclassical manner instead of the more lavish Baroque of early periods.

The chairs consist of oval backs, carved with ribbons and flowers, and mounted upon tapering stop-fluted legs. The pieces are each upholstered using a more recent cream cut velvet fabric, that lends these antique pieces a modernity and freshness that sees them fit for purpose, as well as enviable and desirable for their aesthetic quality. The chairs are each 60cm wide by 55cm deep by 92cm high.