Louis XVI furniture
A 1913 photographic survey of Louis XVI furniture compiled by the bibliographer and art historian Seymour de Ricci and issued by Hoffmann in Stuttgart for collectors, dealers and cabinetmakers. Plates are plain studio photographs of single pieces against bare backgrounds \u2014 writing tables, commodes, armoires and chairs \u2014 showing marquetry lattices and parquetry diapers, gilt-bronze mounts, fluted legs and carved friezes that can be traced as repeating pattern or ornament silhouettes.
