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Lot Essay
Este juego de diez sillones, concevido a la manera del estilo francs Luis XVI, tiene alguna similitud con la obra del arquitcto y diseador Ventura Rodrguez. Un diseo de silln en la coleccin de los Duques de Sueca en Madrid ilustra esta similitud (L. Feduchi, Estilos del Mueble Espaol, Barcelona, 1969, fig. 352, p. 253). Aunque el respaldo cuadrado-oval de este diseo se aleja del diseo que toma Ventura Rodrguez del estilo Luis XVI. El uso simple y lmpio de las estras de las patas, los brazos terminados en volutas y la decoracin detallada alrededor del bastidor indican que el diseador de este juego podra haberse fijado en los diseos de mobiliario de Ventura Rodriguez. Lo que tambin es posible, es que el diseador estuviese trabajando con referencia a una silla francesa o italiana a la moda alrededor de 1780. Como es el caso, en el mobiliario espaol de este periodo, las artes decorativas francesas e italianas dominaban los diseos y caprichos de mecenas y diseadores. Estos recursos eran entonces interpretados a la manera espaola, en este caso el volumen y solidez de estos sillones convence de su identidad bera.
This set of ten open armchairs, conceived in the French Louis XVI style, bears some similarity to the work of the architect and designer Ventura Rodrguez. A design in the collection of the Duques de Sueca in Madrid of an open armchair illustrates this similarity (L. Feduchi, Estilos del Mueble Espaol, Barcelona, 1969, fig. 352, p. 253). Although the squared-oval shaped back of the present design departs from the Louis XVI-style form of Ventura Rodrguez' design. The simple and clean use of stop fluting in the legs, the arms with scroll terminals and detailed decoration around the edges of the frame show that the designer of this set may well have seen designs or furniture designed by Ventura Rodrguez. Equally possible that the designer was working from a French or Italian model of a chair, fashionable in Spain around 1780, for example a design in Delafosse's Rceuil de Meubles of 1768, known as 'chaise dans le gout antique'. As is the often case in Spanish furniture of this period, French and Italian taste in the decorative arts dominated the designs and artistic whims of patrons and designers. These sources were then interpreted in a characteristically Spanish manner. In this case, the grand and solid feeling of these chairs convince one of their Iberian identity.
This set of ten open armchairs, conceived in the French Louis XVI style, bears some similarity to the work of the architect and designer Ventura Rodrguez. A design in the collection of the Duques de Sueca in Madrid of an open armchair illustrates this similarity (L. Feduchi, Estilos del Mueble Espaol, Barcelona, 1969, fig. 352, p. 253). Although the squared-oval shaped back of the present design departs from the Louis XVI-style form of Ventura Rodrguez' design. The simple and clean use of stop fluting in the legs, the arms with scroll terminals and detailed decoration around the edges of the frame show that the designer of this set may well have seen designs or furniture designed by Ventura Rodrguez. Equally possible that the designer was working from a French or Italian model of a chair, fashionable in Spain around 1780, for example a design in Delafosse's Rceuil de Meubles of 1768, known as 'chaise dans le gout antique'. As is the often case in Spanish furniture of this period, French and Italian taste in the decorative arts dominated the designs and artistic whims of patrons and designers. These sources were then interpreted in a characteristically Spanish manner. In this case, the grand and solid feeling of these chairs convince one of their Iberian identity.