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Article: Antiques; The 'Secrets' Of French Furniture - New York Times
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- October 10, 1997
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Collectors of 18th-century French furniture behave like members of a secret society. They bat around the names of furniture makers most people have never heard of -- Louis Cresson, Georges Jacob, Nicolas Heurtat, Jean-Baptiste Tilliard. They talk about provenance -- who owned the piece before, whether it is in the Wallace Collection catalogue in London or the Wrightsman rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They argue whether Regence is better than Louis XV and whether unpainted wood (bois naturel) is more chic than painted. But the secret society is opening up this month, when several events have been organized to introduce great French antiques to novice collectors and the ...
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