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Decorative Chinese Sideboard browse these categories for related items... All Items: Furniture: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1920: item #568505
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| Deorative Chinese Sideboard with images of garden and floral designs five drawers frlanked over three pair of drawers. H:36.5" W:79" D:20" Chinoiserie style is a 17th- and 18th-century Western style of interior design, furniture, pottery, textiles, and garden design that represents fanciful European interpretations of Chinese styles. In the first decades of the 17th century, English and Italian and, later, other craftsmen began to draw freely on decorative forms found on cabinets, porcelain vessels, and embroideries imported from China. The earliest appearance of a major chinoiserie interior scheme was in Louis Le Vau's Trianon de porcelaine of 1670–71 (subsequently destroyed), built for Louis XIV at Versailles. The fad spread rapidly; indeed, no court residence, especially in Germany, was complete without its Chinese room, which was often, as it had been for Louis, the room for the prince's mistress (e.g., Lackkabinett, Schloss Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, 1714–22). Chinoiserie, used mainly in conjunction with Baroque and Rococo styles, featured extensive gilding and lacquering; much use of blue-and-white (e.g., Delftware); asymmetrical forms; disruptions of orthodox perspective; and Oriental figures and motifs. The style—with its lightness and asymmetry and the capriciousness of many of its motifs—also made itself felt in the fine arts, as in the paintings of the French artists Antoine Watteau and François Boucher. The cult connected with the fad prepared Europe for the reception of greater informality in garden design. During the 18th century, pagodas and tea pavilions invaded European parks as gazebos. In England European ideas about Chinese philosophy were joined with English notions about the sublime, the romantic, and the “natural” to produce the English, or Anglo-Chinese, garden. The ill-informed tutelage of Sir William Temple (On the Garden of Epicurus, 1685) operated in England; whereas the later direction of Sir William Chambers (Designs of Chinese Buildings . . . , 1757), who had been in China, was more influential on the Continent. Chinoiserie gradually waned during the 19th century, when the appeal of China and East Asia had to compete with other exotic tastes, such as the “Turkish,” the Egyptian, the Gothic, and the Greek. It enjoyed a brief revival in interior design, however, in the 1930s. LifestyleAntiques.com is an antique dealer in Santa Barbara, California specializing in European antique furniture and antique lighting for your home and garden. Among some of our specialties are home lighting, home furnishings and garden statues. There are several antique shops around our specific area in Summerland, a suburb of Santa Barbara, but none offer the fine selection of antique home furniture, antique lamps, antique chairs, decorative pillows and antique mirrors that we do. We specialize in French furniture as well as antique furniture from Spain and Italy. Looking for that right wall tapestry or pair of console tables or fine art prints? We may have what you are looking for. Among some of our favorite pieces are Murano glass, chaise lounges, lamps, table lamps, floor lamps, and settees. Interior decorating and interior design are both very fun for us. If you’d like us to help with your home interior, please let us know. Not many antique stores offer the selection that we do. Add this with our flexible on-line sales policy incorporated into our client focused, customer service based team and you have an antique shop that we hope you will come back to time and time again. | ||||||||||||||
