R3egence style

The regent, Philippe of Orleans, leaves a certain freedom in creation.

The R3egence style is transitory and is between the styles Louis XIV and Louis XV around 1700 at 1730. In spite of that, it has clean and balanced characteristics.

Frame of mind

People close to the court want of more than intimacy and refinement, more evenings with topic (reading, orchestras, etc). Living rooms are held: some princes and gentes ladies organize them, one meets there writers, poets, philosophers. The topic of the love meets a sharp success. The galantery is proposed: Education and spirit. Period of the commedia dell' arte .

Structure and Decoration

There are more parts in the apartments and houses. One prefers to have several living rooms in which people can circulate and pass from an environment to another (example: Eastern living room, living room of music, etc), of new parts are created: the boudoir and the anteroom, parts completely female. The parts are less ostentatious and one emphasizes arts.

Appearance of a new trade association: the corporation: the merchants drapers: They do not create, they advise and direct the tastes and modes of their customers. It are like the decorators of our time: They work with cabinetmakers, carpenters, etc They are the Masters of tastes and coordinators of all the trade associations which intervene at a customer.

Furniture

The principal materials used are the oak, the beech, the walnut tree, the fir tree, the poplar, the blackened pear tree, the exotic wood, Asian and African imported by the company of the Indies. Plating, marquetry, gilding with gold sheet or bronzes gilded with mercury is the traditional techniques of this period.

the tables are smaller than before and handy: the spacer is gradually removed, they are often out of waxed sawn timber.
the washstand appears in the boudoirs.
consoles of brackets, consoles of medium.
offices: they often spread and are out of blackened wood, the plate encircled right of bronze covered with a morocco, feet bent and bronze decoration.
dressers: the dresser with two bodies. The dresser vaisselier.lorsqu' it are low one calls low them armoire.ils open by two casements, profiled and sculpter.ils one genralementdeux tirois as ceinture.leurs feet short and are cambered.
the convenient ones: - in tomb (or with regency). Convenient with the crossbow (cressent, contour in the prolongation of the feet).
seats: general information: less cumbersome - more handy. The file is violonné more and more, the arm-rests are more loins in the chair. They are covered with tapestries or rich person fabrics, of particular trimming: the cannage.jusque one about 1720, the armchairs ontlor four feet, droitsou legerementcambrés, reliéspar a spacer out of H or X.les wood appears neither with the file nor with the belt.
armchairs.
shepherdesses with ears.
stools.
benches of bracket - settee - the long chair.
cupboards: large, high and only out of sawn timber. The frontage can be bent, the cross-piece is jig-sawn and decorated light reasons. The panels are asymmetrical in the direction height.
voyeuses or ponteuses: chairs on which one assied with - califourchon to look at people playing or discussing.
mirrors.
pendulums.

Ornaments

The decorative reasons are:

basic plays: squared, rhombuses.
human reasons: catch (at the origin of the sculptor bronzier Cressent), masks female.
animal reasons: monkeys, shells, wings of bat.
vegetable reasons: palmette, sunflower, gaudronnées sheets, sheets of acanthus.

The geometrical reasons for marquetry Swell.

exotic reasons: plucks peacock, pagodas.

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