A luxurious material prized for its translucency and warm tones, tortoiseshell was, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a material of choice for cabinetmakers and tabletiers.

A dynasty of cabinetmakers from the Dauphiné, the Hache produced furniture of singular form and decoration throughout the eighteenth century. Maintaining ties with the Parisian trades, they devised pieces of great richness intended for the regional nobility.

In 1949, Charles Wrightsman visited the Metropolitan Museum for the first time, on the occasion of the exhibition Masterpieces of European Porcelain. In the museum's galleries, the Meissen birds lent by the collector Irwin Untermyer caught his attention. This decisive moment would lead Charles and Jayne Wrightsman to become one of the most important couples…

This exceptional pair of candelabra is a masterpiece of the rocaille taste. Combining superbly crafted gilt bronzes with celebrated sculpted porcelain groups from the Meissen manufactory, it is the work of an eminent marchand mercier.

From the reign of Louis XIV to the close of the eighteenth century, high society cultivated a keen scientific curiosity: it surrounded itself with specialized objects and gathered for spectacular experiments.

Less well known than his son, the famous "BVRB," Bernard I Van Riesen Burgh was nonetheless one of the foremost cabinetmakers of the late reign of Louis XIV and the Régence period. His marquetry work, of exceptional richness, attracted a distinguished clientele.

Ten years ago, interior designer Jacques Garcia came to the gallery to celebrate the release of Twenty Years of Passion. Le Château du Champ de Bataille. On May 27, he will return to sign Thirty Years of Passion, which chronicles the latest developments of this monumental undertaking.

Created in the final years of Louis XIV's reign, this pair of candlesticks belongs to the tradition of the great furnishings commissioned by the Sun King. Executed after a model originally delivered to the king for Versailles and Marly, it embodies the bold and noble taste favored by the sovereign. Attributed to some of the…

A sculptor, bronze maker, and designer, Jean-Louis Prieur was one of the great creative figures of the second half of the eighteenth century. Across his work, he developed a refined Neoclassicism poised between the Greek taste and the arabesque.

In May 1945, the Monuments Men entered the Altaussee salt mine for the first time. Deep within its galleries, they discovered thousands of works of art in storage — paintings, drawings, sculptures, books, furniture, and decorative objects — all looted by the Nazis. What followed was an extraordinary mission of recovery and restitution.