Garden Room 5
Le Rouge et Le Noir (Stendhal?)

Garden Room 5
...With a - Guilded Marquetry - Magic Mystery Box?
...or something quite simple and practicable?
...certainly, the most BEAUTIFUL AND PRECIOUS of its kind in AMSTERDAM - handcrafted by the Dutch artisan Crisow von Schulz.
Note:This piece of furniture (which is now in Canal View Room 6) recently has been replaced by another handcrafted box with the same function.

An Attractive Painting from
the Dutch Artist Gertrud D

Garden room 5...with a detail of the 17th century baroque rosewood,ebony,ivory and fruitwood marquetry cupboard or "rankenkast"from Zeeland with 19th century marquetry.

Garden room 5...with a 19th century French Boulle centre table.

Garden room 5 ...with the 19th Century French Boulle Table from Christie's


From:The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 |

André Charles Boulle , 1642-1732, French cabinetmaker, the master of a distinctive style of furniture, much imitated, for which his name has become a synonym. In 1672 he was admitted to a group of skilled artists maintained by Louis XIV in the Louvre palace, and thereafter he devoted himself to creating costly furniture and objects of art for the king and court. Boulle's pieces, having in general the character of Louis XIV and régence design, were built for the immense formal rooms of the period. Boulle, a master of marquetry , specialized in the inlaying of ebony with precious woods and mother-of-pearl. Large areas were covered with TORTOISESHELL,INLAID WITH ARABESQUES OF GJILDED BRAS. He added splendid bas-relief compositions, as well as sculptured rosettes, masks, and acanthus scrolls, all in gilded bronze. Superb examples of his art exist at Versailles,
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Garden room 5 ...with a beautiful detail of the French Boulle table.

André-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 – 28 February 1732), was the French cabinetmaker who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry. His fame in marquetry led to his name being given to a fashion of inlaying known as Boulle (or, in 19th-century Britain, Buhl work) He was employed for many years at Versailles, where the mirrored walls, the floors of wood mosaic, the inlaid paneling and the marquetery furniture in the Cabinet du Dauphin were regarded as his most remarkable work.
The Renaissance artists chiefly employed wood in making furniture, ornamenting it with gilding and painting, and inlaying it with agate, cornelian, lapis lazuli, marble of various tints, ivory, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, and various woods. Boulle improved upon this by inlaying brass devices into wood or tortoiseshell, which last he greatly used according to the design he had immediately in view, whether flowers, scenes, scrolls, etc; to these he sometimes added enameled metal. as his most remarkable work.

Garden room 5...with a detail of the French 19th century centre table

Decorative Lamp