It was June 11, 1775, and Louis XVI was crowned king of France in the city of Rheims. Married to Marie Antoinette, a strong woman with a passion for all things fashionable and self-indulgent, Louis ...
Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, an 18th-century Parisian carpenter, designed this suite of Louis XVI furniture circa 1780. Pluvinet received his maîtrise in 1775, established his own atelier in 1778, and ...