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The XVII-th century gives birth to a style, which expresses itself differently in every country following the national temperament of the artisans. In France, he is called Louis XIII, Louis XIV, the Regency which can also define under the angle the baroque as under the angle Rococo : the time of transition and of short duration, a rather different furniture is discovered to it in the sense that some artists remain faithful in the style Louis XIV other artists, as Cressent, are in a sense the avant-garde of that will be the style Louis XV. The characteristics of the style the baroque is not so characterized by an excess of ornementation that by what one can determinedly call a twist, door to forgery, etc. This " acrobatie " often gave, rather paradoxically, well-balanced works and without excess load. The style of the furniture : the piece of furniture is going to leave the aspect of an architectural reducing to find its face clean : built one covered with wide panels. The two furniture fashionably are the cabinet and the cupboard. The walnut stays the wood fashionably, but the ebony seems being treated in veneer. * Ebony under Louis XIII The typical ornaments : * The muzzle of holding lion in the mouth a ring * The coverings in bows |