Louis XV vs Louis XVI Furniture — The Most Important Shift in French Design and What It Means for a Collector Today
In the space of roughly twenty years, French furniture went from celebrating the curve to eliminating it entirely. That shift, from the Rococo exuberance of Louis XV to the Neoclassical discipline of Louis XVI, is one of the sharpest aesthetic pivots in European history, and understanding it changes how you look at every piece of […]