French Louis Xv / Louis Xvi Transition Style Bedside Table, France, 1840

Very pretty bedside table or chest of drawers opening with 4 drawers and featuring a spacer shelf in natural walnut wood from the 19th century.
The feet are covered to add a touch of roundness and elegance.
This adorable little table is Transition style, between Louis XV and Louis XVI.
The carving of the walnut wood gives a lot of character to the piece of furniture.
The woodwork is natural and elegant.
The raw wood gives this small piece of furniture great decorative interest.
This little side table is very charming.

France – 19th

The Transition style is a French style whose genesis can be dated very precisely to 1758 when the avant-garde collector Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully ordered a series of furniture from the architect Louis-Joseph le Lorain – visible in France at Château de Chantilly — which contrasts with the taste of the time. The transition style is, as its name indicates, a style of aesthetic transition which will mark the evolution of Louis XV towards Louis XVI. Thus the Transition style marks the stylistic evolution which, in the second half of the reign of Louis XV and at the very beginning of the reign of Louis XVI, is characterized by the abandonment of the curves and movement of Rocaille in favor of straight, refined and symmetry.