The Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], 'the King's desk'), also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk (French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis...
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Jean Henri Riesener (section Bureau à cylindre)
ébénistes Roger Vandercruse Lacroix and Martin Carlin. He completed the Bureau du Roi, which had been started in 1760, under his predecessor and master, Oeben;...
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Palace of Versailles (redirect from Musée du château de Versailles et du Trianon)
Bureau du Roi Fresh pavilion List of Baroque residences List of tourist attractions in Paris Louis XIV style Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Potager du roi...
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cylinder desk, and perhaps the most famous desk of all times, is the Bureau du Roi manufactured for the French royalty in the 18th century. Aronson, Joseph...
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credited with designing the original rolltop desk around 1760, however his Bureau du Roi (completed by Jean Henri Riesener after Oeben's death) was a cylinder...
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appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished...
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The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛtit‿apaʁtmɑ̃ dy ʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI...
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Typewriter desk Wooton desk Writing armchair Writing desk Writing table Bureau du Roi Henry VIII's writing desk Resolute desk Aronson, Joseph. The Encyclopedia...
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pieces delivered by Jean Henri Riesener in the 1770s and 1780s. The Bureau du Roi was the most famous amongst these famous masterpieces. Marquetry was...
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England, and presented it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. The Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], the King's desk), also known as...
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