Le Mobilier Du Musée Carnavalet

In a series of some fifty rooms, most of which decorated with antique woodwork, the Musée Carnavalet offers a panorama of five centuries of furniture production in Paris. The same workshops that worked for the Garde-Meuble royal supplied a rich aristocratic or bourgeois clientele, conforming, depending on the period, to the taste of Versailles, the imperial court or the restored monarchy.

One hundred and fifteen specially photographed seats, furniture or sets are analysed in this book, which offers a previously unpublished publication of the furniture in Carnavalet. The stylistic characteristics, technical features, and the place of the master carpenter or cabinetmaker in Parisian production accompany the overall view and sometimes detailed photographs of each piece of furniture.