Cressent

/ krɛsɑ̃ /

noun

1. Charles. 1685–1768, French cabinetmaker, noted esp for his marquetry using coloured woods

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The 18th century was seen as the heyday of design, when creativity was at its peak, a golden age that brought to light avant-garde silhouettes, techniques, ornamentation and materials by master cabinetmakers like André-Charles Boulle, Charles Cressent, Bernard II Vanrisenburgh, Jean-François Oeben and Jean-Henri Riesener.

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As the second son of Fran�ois Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also became a sculptor, he inherited the tastes and aptitudes which were likely to make a finished designer and craftsman.

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Cressent’s distinction is closely connected with the regency, but his earlier work had affinities with the school of Boulle, while his later pieces were full of originality.

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He was likewise a sculptor, and among his plastic work is known to have been a bronze bust of Louis, duc d’Orl�ans, the son of the regent, for whom Cressent had made one of the finest examples of French furniture of the 18th century—the famous m�daillier now in the Biblioth�que Nationale.

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Cressent’s bronze mounts were executed with a sharpness of finish and a grace and vigour of outline which were hardly excelled by his great contemporary Jacques Caffieri.

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