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Article: Honore Lannuier's furniture and patrons: recent discoveries. (19th century New York City cabinetmaker)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Honore Lannuier, the French-born cabinetmaker who lived and worked on Broad Street in New York City from 1803 until 1819, is a furniture connoisseur's delight. Because he obsessively labeled his finished work with a French-style stump [ILLUSTRATION FOR PLATE IA OMITTED], his furniture has become known to an ever-widening circle of collectors and connoisseurs from the beginning of this century.
The seminal event in the study of Lannuier was the discovery of his very existence about 1900 by the German-born cabinetmaker and antiquarian Ernest F. Hagen (1830-1913). Hagen came to New York City in the 1840s and entered the cabinetmaking trade. He became an admirer of, and ...