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Is it possible, from extant invoices, to give us an idea how much was paid for this in today's dollars?

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Great video+explanation+presentation! Thank you for sharing! Well done mate - NEW SUB 🙏🏻

See this furniture? French 18th century, 19th century, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Napoleon III. What happened? World War One is what happened. They blew away the trees, the oak, the walnut, the maple, they fired so many shells all over France and Europe, they killed the fine craftsmen all over Europe, from France, Biedermeier furniture, they destroyed the factories, killed the men by the millions, utterly destroyed the entire industry. They spent so much money on weapons and war, both world wars. Europe has never recovered. Now look at this modern furniture. It is not the germans fault, so many fine homes, so much fine furniture destroyed from those wars, the germans too have paid the price. Europe needs to be careful as multiculturalism cannot produce such fine furniture, no. Fine craftsmanship and design must be protected, not flooded and endangered, not given away to strangers. Wine barrels make no desk from French oak. The oak is more valuable than the wine. One cannot set their coffee upon a wine barrel in the morning and then go to work. War has cost Europe a terrible price, more than most know or understand. We must return to the past in order to go forward, we must plant and water the tree, we must build the furniture school, we must reproduce quality. Things must return to a finer day. I have an appreciation, I have a memory, I remember, I see fine things and remember a time and I am knowing the road to returning. LLXIIX77

Merci, du Sud Brèsil.

You know your pieces! I find you to be an expert!

Top not griffins.. look more like dogs.

Just one Minus-very more,more speak.

Thank You

Please return it to Natchez MS where it undoubtedly came from.

You have a gift for this. Nice work

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I miss these Vids 😢haven’t been many lately ❤!

Another wonderful piece, thank for sharing!

Nice to see someone with money and class. Rather than buy some new build he is restoring a chateau. 👍

An amazing piece. However, what most captured my imagination in this video is your mention of the gothic as an anticlassical style. I see just what you mean, and don't mean at all to imply you're "incorrect", only that another interpretation of the form immediately sprung to my mind. I saw the columns as egyptian lotus columns, perhaps "vestigial" in some sense of the napoleonic egypt craze. That african track in turn made me consider the "alternate" interpretation of the gothic as a marriage, or intersection, between romanesque decorative art and islamic geometry as represented by the moorish style.... which eventually made me think the mirror, actually especially excluding the actual frame component, is overall quite reminiscent of Mughal architecture, the columns representing twin minarets, massive but rounded geometries adorned by delicate yet high contrast ornamentation....

Nice, where are the leggs of the secretaire ?

Beautiful bed, and I like your presentations so very much.

Beautiful! I love that is is austere and can be used in virtually any setting and fit in well.

You definitely are a world of information. Could you give us a little background on your experiences, workplace history, and or companies you work for in the past

so so cool

Thought I had seen all of your videos; just ran across this one. It is excellent as are all your presentations. I noticed that the drawer on the later Charles X piece has a birds eye maple cover on the top of it. What was the purpose of this feature? Thank you.

Ok. So what happened to her?

All this being financed on the backs of the peasants.

I wish the video was longer!

Such a wonderful pavilion. Thank you for showing it to us.

Great looking piece ! Thank you for your informative presentation

Remarkable artistry of the lemonwood inlaid ! Just too over the top ! Stunning piece of Charles 10 th furniture !

Thank you for the interesting history.

Who would have thought it took some much work to be a mistress😂.

❤ lovely little chateau! Imagine the treasures it was filled with. Her lavish apartments at Versailles are nothing to be sneered at either. I don't think her portral in the Depp film does her justice. It would be interesting to know if there were extant pieces of furniture from her chateau that survived. Great video!

We just love to listen to all that you have to say !!

Excellent presentation! Bravo!

Seriously, South Dakota ? What a fate they had at the end of it.....

❤ it's for sale .... interiors are amazing

Great piece of furniture ! Classical and elegant

Love your background history and your presentation ! Love Anything FRENCH !

Beautiful piece ! Thankyou for sharing

Abandoned?

I have 2 French armoires and it's so sad that no one wants them any more. I've tried with auction houses and they are not sellable. It 's such a great loss of carpentry work and wood. I'm trying my best to salvage the wood and doors. Today younger generations do not have any space and move often and I understand this. They would rather have fake wood furniture painted grey or white or denim blue.

incredible, is there longer video/follow up? what was inside!

I can't get over feeling that the Ark of the Covenant is inside one of those boxes in that warehouse... :)

I am subscribed and looking forward to the new ones coming!

The famous Trubetskoy Imperial Russia-era family, wow! 💫🕊🌏💌

Cole, I see that your store appears as permanently closed on Google. Is this true?

Thank you. Another well done video showcasing a beautiful example of port furniture. Please keep them coming. Very informative and so enjoyable to watch.

What a beautiful piece of furniture! It is simple, almost plain but the beauty of the mahogany and the delicate carving makes it stand out. It is easy to become dazzled and almost spoiled by the beautiful, elaborate and sometimes over-the-top furniture produced for the royal family and the high-ranking nobility. That kind of furniture is clearly decorative, no wonder the French called that kind of luxurious furniture "meuble d´apparat". BTW, why is this piece of furniture called a "buffet" and not an "armoire"? I always believed that the word "buffet" applied to what in English is known as a "sideboard". Also, this piece of furniture corresponds to the definition of "armoire" given by the Larousse dictionary: "Meuble de rangement, plus haut que large, subdivisé intérieurement par des tablettes et fermé par une ou plusieurs portes (qui parfois portent une glace)" Thank you for this video. I wish you a nice weekend. Claudio.

Stunning and monumental. I particularly like the carving and the smooth, rounded skirt at the bottom (almost like the sensualness of a stair banister) Thank you for your knowledge and for sharing this lovely piece.❤

Very interesting. Thank you.

Another great video, keep them coming!