fauteuils

Derry Moore khjy 6 My signature decorating touches: Even in a modern room, something that has a little old – world glamour like a pair of french fauteuils or paneled walls or an urn.

Drama Queen 2010

Consider this: A pair of Louis XVI fauteuils that were $35,000 15 years ago just went for $10,000 at auction.

Really Fine Prices for Fine Antiques Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

Ibsen and Björnson occupied the centre of the dress circle, sitting uplifted in two gilded fauteuils and segregated by a vast garland of red and white roses.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Ibsen and Björnson occupied the centre of the dress circle, sitting uplifted in two gilded fauteuils and segregated by a vast garland of red and white roses.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

They were things so old and beautiful it is hard to imagine—furniture of ormolu and precious island woods, marquetry bureau plats inlaid with ebonized tortoiseshell, walnut fauteuils à la reine, gilt bronze prancing horses, portraits of ancestors known only to families who fled or perished in a single day.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

They were things so old and beautiful it is hard to imagine—furniture of ormolu and precious island woods, marquetry bureau plats inlaid with ebonized tortoiseshell, walnut fauteuils à la reine, gilt bronze prancing horses, portraits of ancestors known only to families who fled or perished in a single day.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

They were things so old and beautiful it is hard to imagine—furniture of ormolu and precious island woods, marquetry bureau plats inlaid with ebonized tortoiseshell, walnut fauteuils à la reine, gilt bronze prancing horses, portraits of ancestors known only to families who fled or perished in a single day.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Round the table were placed beautifully carved oaken fauteuils, of a very old pattern.

A Love Story A Bushman

Saint-Beuve expressed it concisely: "M. de Balzac est trop gros pour nos fauteuils," and while men who are now absolutely unknown entered the sacred precincts without difficulty, the door remained permanently closed to the greatest novelist of the age.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

The ring has been cut in two, and hundreds of fauteuils have been placed in small groups so arranged as to form substitutes for beds.

Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard