Card table. Culture: American. Dimensions: 30 x 35 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. (76.2 x 89.5 x 44.5 cm). Maker: Charles-Honoré Lannuier (France 1779-1819 New York). Date: 1805-12.The latest styles in European furniture arrived in colonial and Federal America by three principal means: pattern books of engraved furniture designs, imported high-style objects, and skilled immigrant craftsmen. This exquisite table, a nearly pure rendition of French Consulate (1799-1804) design, was made in New York by one of the most important of these immigrant craftsmen, Charles-Honoré Lannuier. Trained as a cabinetmaker in Paris in the tumultuous aftermath of the French Revolution, Lannuier came to New York City in 1803 and distinguished himself as the city's resident ébéniste de Paris until his untimely death at the age of forty in 1819. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.