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@BatchelderPatrick Күн бұрын
Is it possible, from extant invoices, to give us an idea how much was paid for this in today's dollars?
@BennychenChua 9 күн бұрын
Magical
@shakejones 12 күн бұрын
Great video+explanation+presentation! Thank you for sharing! Well done mate - NEW SUB 🙏🏻
@llywelynyllevyn1176 23 күн бұрын
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
@vercingetorixkingofgalia7196 23 күн бұрын
Merci, du Sud Brèsil.
@mrboult1616 Ай бұрын
You know your pieces! I find you to be an expert!
@unclesven4515 Ай бұрын
Top not griffins.. look more like dogs.
@WeaselStrong-in5fi Ай бұрын
Just one Minus-very more,more speak.
@WeaselStrong-in5fi Ай бұрын
Thank You
@TheCaffeinatedOrganist Ай бұрын
Please return it to Natchez MS where it undoubtedly came from.
@TheCaffeinatedOrganist Ай бұрын
You have a gift for this. Nice work
@erkanduzdas3328 2 ай бұрын
nice
@steven2280 2 ай бұрын
I miss these Vids 😢haven’t been many lately ❤!
@pebble247 2 ай бұрын
Another wonderful piece, thank for sharing!
@fnuppyfnup 2 ай бұрын
Nice to see someone with money and class. Rather than buy some new build he is restoring a chateau. 👍
@MatsMattssonBostrom 2 ай бұрын
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....
@maximhollandnederlandthene7640 2 ай бұрын
Nice, where are the leggs of the secretaire ?
@maroulio2067 2 ай бұрын
Beautiful bed, and I like your presentations so very much.
@maroulio2067 2 ай бұрын
Beautiful! I love that is is austere and can be used in virtually any setting and fit in well.
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
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
@imjws 3 ай бұрын
so so cool
@jamesharris9474 3 ай бұрын
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.
@p.m.bradley9049 3 ай бұрын
Ok. So what happened to her?
@danielda4471 3 ай бұрын
She was guillotined during the French Revolution, after keeping a low profile for years despite not supporting the monarchist side. She was robbed of the equivalent of 20 million euros and to recover the jewels, she published the huge amount of diamonds and jewels that had been stolen, the revolutionaries remembered her and went after her head because they wanted to eradicate everything related to the excesses of the monarchy.
@d.l.l.6578 3 ай бұрын
All this being financed on the backs of the peasants.
@amcconnell6730 3 ай бұрын
Taken from the backs of the peasants for a peasant on her back. :)
@jasminespencer3992 3 ай бұрын
I wish the video was longer!
@arslongavitabrevis5136 2 ай бұрын
Me too! I was beginning to enjoy the story when it ended! 😭😭(LOL)
@dougcargill6730 3 ай бұрын
Such a wonderful pavilion. Thank you for showing it to us.
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
Great looking piece ! Thank you for your informative presentation
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
Remarkable artistry of the lemonwood inlaid ! Just too over the top ! Stunning piece of Charles 10 th furniture !
@brettfine3444 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the interesting history.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching - just posted this as I havent finished editing the full upcoming furniture videos
@davidwall951 3 ай бұрын
Who would have thought it took some much work to be a mistress😂.
@randyfloyd560 3 ай бұрын
❤ 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!
@barrymace3153 3 ай бұрын
What fantastic clip.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Some of the original pieces occasionally trade at the upper end of the art market and some are in the Met
@randyfloyd560 3 ай бұрын
@@MyersMonroe next time I'm in NYC I will have to pay a visit! Thanks again!
@chateaudelamotte9527 3 ай бұрын
We just love to listen to all that you have to say !!
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks 🙏! More usual furniture videos on the way!
@lelandapartments9531 3 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation! Bravo!
@EastMontana1 3 ай бұрын
Seriously, South Dakota ? What a fate they had at the end of it.....
@randyfloyd560 3 ай бұрын
❤ it's for sale .... interiors are amazing
@arslongavitabrevis5136 3 ай бұрын
I have 40.000 dollars, would that be enough? (LOL)
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
🙏👍
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
Great piece of furniture ! Classical and elegant
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks it’s one of the better finds as of late 👍
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
Love your background history and your presentation ! Love Anything FRENCH !
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
There is a full video on this piece just FYI ! Thank you for commenting 🙏
@th-uh2oo Ай бұрын
Then, you can have all the French attitude. :)))
@brucecavey9759 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful piece ! Thankyou for sharing
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching 🙏 glad you liked seeing the piece
@cmwHisArtist 3 ай бұрын
Abandoned?
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Quasi inhabited and for sale !
@Blondine9ify 3 ай бұрын
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.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Well that doesn’t sound great and that is the case most of the time. The museum quality ones featured on the channel have all been sold to collectors or special design projects. Thanks for watching.
@Dr.TobiasFunke 3 ай бұрын
incredible, is there longer video/follow up? what was inside!
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
This was not intended as a cliffhanger but just an amusing shot in the street! The full video is on my channel - there was nothing good inside
@Dr.TobiasFunke 3 ай бұрын
@@MyersMonroe Ha, yes I did manage to find the full video -- a very interesting piece nevertheless, thank you for sharing!
@amcconnell6730 3 ай бұрын
I can't get over feeling that the Ark of the Covenant is inside one of those boxes in that warehouse... :)
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
You and me both 😂 that was the intended effect of this atmosphere / last minute staging !
@MrThomas2587 3 ай бұрын
I am subscribed and looking forward to the new ones coming!
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks so much - I’ll be making some better planned and more thorough videos on other pieces every two weeks.
@Mazurka1001 3 ай бұрын
The famous Trubetskoy Imperial Russia-era family, wow! 💫🕊🌏💌
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Yes thank you! Any comments you have on this subject would be greatly appreciated as this piece is about to enter a museum collection
@DerekP9750 3 ай бұрын
Cole, I see that your store appears as permanently closed on Google. Is this true?
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for letting me know - I changed it to open with no main hours.
@jamesharris9474 3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Another well done video showcasing a beautiful example of port furniture. Please keep them coming. Very informative and so enjoyable to watch.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks again for watching - I have another ten pieces which need filming and the next video will be of a previously un-featured piece in a customer’s home!
@arslongavitabrevis5136 3 ай бұрын
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.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Great question - originally these four doored armoires were called as such during the Renaissance (with a top corps either narrower or the same size as the bottom one). You could still call it an armoire à quatre portes, but by this time they became more associated with presenting meal service pieces and in any case the term for a while has been “buffet à deux corps.” Interestingly, as will be covered in other videos, the grandest two door armoires of this period were also for presenting silverware and plates (not for bedroom use) although we call them armoires and later in the 19th century they became true wardrobes for clothes.
@arslongavitabrevis5136 3 ай бұрын
@@MyersMonroe Thank you very much for the explanation. Inspired by your comment I decided to look at the origin of the word "buffet" Originally it was spelt "bufet" and it meant A) As a verb: Strike, slap someone B) As a substantive: Bench or sideboard. Both meanings are still valid. Interestingly the Germans also use the word "buffet" to designate a sideboard although they spell it "Büffet" but it is rather old-fashioned. There is also a proper German word for sideboard and is "Anrichte", from it derives the verb "anrichten" which means "To set/display the dishes on the sideboard" I am sorry I got carried away but I cannot help it. I am obsessive about the use of the correct words and their etymology. Regards
@randyfloyd560 3 ай бұрын
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.❤
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@robertgraham1088 3 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Thank you.
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Many thanks for watching - more more thorough videos to come !
@MrThomas2587 3 ай бұрын
Another great video, keep them coming!
@MyersMonroe 3 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do - aiming for one per two weeks!