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SMALL OFFICE OR DRESSING TABLE CHAIR with a gondola-style backrest, originally featuring a swivel seat, in the Louis XVI style—Napoleon III period—made of fluted, molded wood with a gray lacquer finish and tapered legs Flat seat Period silk upholstery (worn) 90 x 53.5 x 53 cm (damage and restorations along the lower rim) Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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