Description
Bureau de Campagne in the Provençal style. France, 18th century. Walnut wood. Measurements: 104 x 125 x 65 cm. Bureau de Campagne belonging to the French Provence, made in walnut wood in the last third of the 18th century. Rectangular in plan, it is divided into two registers with clearly delimited front drawers and locks in the shape of a stylised eagle, original of the period. The upper section is closed with a sloping hinged lid and contains a desk with three drawers. The bureau occupies an important place in 18th-century French art, leading the critic Mario Praz to say, ironically, that for the monarch Louis XV, his triumphal arch was the canopy of a bed. Evidently, this society loved wealth and luxury, but also comfort, so it invented a wide variety of objects of furniture that were also intended to be comfortable, useful to its mission, to the point that some of its models are still preserved today. Provence, on the French Riviera, has inspired films, travels, books and also a very particular style of interior design: the Provençal style. In the country houses surrounded by flowering lavender fields, a style developed that was halfway between classical French décor and the rustic, country ambience of this type of building outside the city.
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Bureau de Campagne in the Provençal style. France, 18th century. Walnut wood. Measurements: 104 x 125 x 65 cm. Bureau de Campagne belonging to the French Provence, made in walnut wood in the last third of the 18th century. Rectangular in plan, it is divided into two registers with clearly delimited front drawers and locks in the shape of a stylised eagle, original of the period. The upper section is closed with a sloping hinged lid and contains a desk with three drawers. The bureau occupies an important place in 18th-century French art, leading the critic Mario Praz to say, ironically, that for the monarch Louis XV, his triumphal arch was the canopy of a bed. Evidently, this society loved wealth and luxury, but also comfort, so it invented a wide variety of objects of furniture that were also intended to be comfortable, useful to its mission, to the point that some of its models are still preserved today. Provence, on the French Riviera, has inspired films, travels, books and also a very particular style of interior design: the Provençal style. In the country houses surrounded by flowering lavender fields, a style developed that was halfway between classical French décor and the rustic, country ambience of this type of building outside the city.
