The French connection in the English tradition
UK: TAKE a look at this meuble d’appui right, mounted with gilt, painted with flowers and inlaid with olive, plum, rosewood, purpleheart and ebony – a sumptuous piece of late 19th century Gallic furniture, n’est-ce pas?
Actually, non. It is, however, an example of the enduring, if not endearing, French influence in the…