Monday, October 27, 2008

Le Garde-meuble, a periodical devoted to furniture design


Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne (Furniture repository, ancient and modern), a bimonthly periodical published in Paris, exerted an enormous influence throughout the world by promoting French styles in furniture, fabrics, and interior decoration for a nearly a century, beginning in 1839 during the reign of Louis Philippe and ceasing in the waning years of the Third Republic around 1935.

Created by furniture designer and publisher Desire Guilmard, the periodical consisted entirely of illustrations of designs for furniture, window treatments and room settings.
Looking for prie dieus, Canterburies or toilettes? This site at The Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections has pretty illustrations of all these and more.
H/T to John for directing me to it.

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