Marlborough Tower

Knock-off

You might not know it if you never make anything from scratch, but the “designing” process, the “deciding the dimensions” and the “how it will be done” part takes time, often even more time than the “just making the stuff” part. That’s why, if you can copy and use a design that’s already been done, you’ll save the better part of the effort.

Here’s how we did just that in copying an existing fire screen for a new series of furniture.

For what it’s worth, you can have a look here at how the first screen was used.

Service Door

From my retro style photo album. Servants posing in front of the service entrance of the Porte de Paris’s living quarters.

Directoire Armchairs

A pair of Directoire armchairs.

The Directoire style, which follows Louis XVI style, is characterized by its greater sobriety and simplicity. All the more so when I make the furniture!

Note how the back legs and the sides of the back are made of a single and curved piece of wood.

Round About Chairs

Fed up with those boring armchairs, always the same with a square back?

Well here is at last a different model, with a round back.

A pair of two new Louis XVI style armchairs « en médaillon »

This type of armchair is still said to be « à la reine » (à la queen) because the back is flat, but is also « en médaillon » (or with a circular back).

Two armchairs with square backs and two with round ones from a series of six new armchairs

Four More Armchairs

Four more armchairs entered the Palace’s collections today. The model is simillar to the one we’ve shown here so far, although the colours are different. Hopefully we’ll have a different model to show you some day soon!

Blue Sky Dream

Two pictures of the Paris Door in Villepreux under a blue sky after today’s rain