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Originally published in 1907 under the title History of Furniture, Albert Jacquemart (1808-1875) arranged his text under the following chapters: Furniture, Ornamental Art, Objects of Art Derived From Statuary, Drapes and Fabrics. This modernised big luxury volume has been completely re-typeset over two columns on glossy white outsize pages and with the addition of approximately 200 colour images including superb close up detail for example of a helmet from Burgundy from a young child’s armour, probably the Dauphin of France in plain iron engraved, formerly gilded, and gauntlets to match for a tiny child’s hands. Originating with pieces as simple as a chair noted for its utility to purely aesthetic objects of beauty like exquisite pieces of jewellery, painted enamels, a golden rose from Avignon 1330, crosses from Constantinople at the end of the 11th century, inlaid writing case and a commode of the Madame du Barry with an oak base veneered with pear wood, rose wood and amaranth, and soft-paste Sèvres porcelain tryptich of images on the door fronts with bronze gilt and white marble trim. There are beautiful writing desks, ebony cabinets, Dagobert’s throne and extraordinary paintings like Guidoccio Cozzarelli’s The Boat Men in their bright red tunics carefully rowing between the sailboats on a busy waterway. There is furniture overlaid with tortoiseshell and metal, flintlocks and weapons, roundel for the young Louis XIV, votive crowns, crosses, pendants and suspension chains in gold, sapphire, emeralds, amethyst, pearls, rock crystals, mother of pearl and jasper, now housed in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. Even if we cannot travel, we can admire the beauty of all manner of decorative art from the comfort of our armchairs with this extraordinarily beautiful publication. 256 very large and heavy pages 27 x 32cm, an enticing survey of major masterpieces.
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