Attributed to Jean-Christophe FISCHER
(1779-1854)
Important desk in mahogany veneer
inlaid with blackened wood fillets. The top
by an ingenious mechanism forms a table à la
table à la Tronchin by unfolding on two important
volutes of gilt bronze. It opens to three drawers
and two side pulls, it rests on four fluted
four fluted tapered legs with gilt bronze capitals.
gilded bronze.
First half of the 19th century.
H. 95 cm - W. 146 cm - D. 74 cm
The cabinetmaker Jean-Christophe Fischer (1779-1854),
who took part in the Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie
of Industry in 1834, where he received the silver
the silver medal. His furniture is distinguished as much by
the perfection of the work as by the elegance of the
forms.
This desk seems to correspond to the comment
of the engineer Stéphane Flachat: "A large
desk that an ingenious mechanism transforms
into a table à la Tronchin [] In the office of
In Mr. Fischer's office, the upper envelope is flat and
horizontal. When one wants to write, one pulls a lower shelf
lower shelf parallel to this envelope,
which is brought back in the interior of the office. []
As for the execution, in this piece of furniture, as in all
as in all those exhibited and made by Mr. Fischer
Mr. Fischer, it is of an exquisite perfection.
This piece of furniture can have different uses.
It is intended to be used as a desk, writing desk, lectern
lectern, or still of board with drawing. According to the
tradition, it is the invention of a doctor of origin
origin, the doctor Théodore Tronchin (1709- 1781)
1781), who was doing research on the bone
bone diseases contracted by architects.
The Tronchin table is one of the multi-purpose pieces of furniture
the aristocracy and the high bourgeoisie of the XVIIIth century.
the upper middle class of the 18th century. This type of
mechanical furniture is gradually abandoned after
the Empire.
Bibliography :
- Report of the central jury on the products of
of French industry exposed in 1834, Charles
Dupin, 1836 volume 3, p. 410.
- L'Industrie. Exposition de 1834, Stéphane
Flachat, 1834, L. Tenré, p. 88.
- Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les ébénistes parisiens
and their brands (1795-1870). P. 173.
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