The materials :

The mahogany triumphs. Fruit wood are also used, especially in province (wild cherry, lemon tree, maple, elm, walnut).

Beech for the wood painted, frequent under the Board of directors. These painted wood are white, grey, green of water or sulfur and underlined of nets or of motives d contrasting or golden colours.

Wood of ebony for the inlays.

Furniture are also found in metal, in the imitation of the Herculanum's furniture : iron, steel, sunbathe.

The decorative motives

They are numerous and much take out every right of the antiquity. The Board of directors is not afraid of mixing Greek, the Roman, étrusque and even the Egyptian.

Sphinx and sphinge meet themselves everywhere (the sphinx is male, deprived of wings, Egyptian ; sphinge, winged, in feminine bust, is Greek).

These figures often wear on the head a high basket charged with fruits (typical detail of the Board of directors).

Griffons, fancies, swans, nymphs tightening a palm or a crown, winged geniuses, Fortunes walking on the globe, Fame, goddess of the Reason.

The motives for revolutionary order : lances, axes, bundles, hats phrygiens, rosettes, twigs of oak, tables of the law, eye of the attentiveness, bawdy cock, hands joined.

Other some motives return very usually : palmette and the rhombus. Streaked Marguerite locked into a square put on the point, it is that differentiates it of the marguerite Louis XVI which is encircled, it by a sluggish square horizontally.

The painted or sculptured motives are often locked into a rhombus, into an oval, into a hexagon.