Commode (commode à vantaux) ca. 1785 Adam Weisweiler French Of German origin, Adam Weisweiler became a master cabinetmaker in 1778 and set up shop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris. Producing luxury furniture, Weisweiler worked almost exclusively for marchands-merciers, especially for Dominique Daguerre, who supplied his Neoclassical furniture to an international clientele. The talented cabinetmaker repeated this model, known as a commode a vantaux (meaning a chest with drawers enclosed by doors), numerous times but often with variations in size, decoration or materials. The use of doors allowed the cabinetmaker to choose lacquer panels or tropical veneer (its veining sometimes resembling marble) without the interruption of horizontal cuts for the drawers fronts. Gilt-bronze moldings frame the door panels (a double-hinged and bolted folding door to the right, and a single door to the left) giving them a picture-like quality. Although Weisweiler frequently selected mahogany veneer to

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Commode (commode à vantaux) ca. 1785 Adam Weisweiler French Of German origin, Adam Weisweiler became a master cabinetmaker in 1778 and set up shop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris. Producing luxury furniture, Weisweiler worked almost exclusively for marchands-merciers, especially for Dominique Daguerre, who supplied his Neoclassical furniture to an international clientele. The talented cabinetmaker repeated this model, known as a commode a vantaux (meaning a chest with drawers enclosed by doors), numerous times but often with variations in size, decoration or materials. The use of doors allowed the cabinetmaker to choose lacquer panels or tropical veneer (its veining sometimes resembling marble) without the interruption of horizontal cuts for the drawers fronts. Gilt-bronze moldings frame the door panels (a double-hinged and bolted folding door to the right, and a single door to the left) giving them a picture-like quality. Although Weisweiler frequently selected mahogany veneer to

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