Are fauteuils usually sold as pairs?

Yes. Of 469 titles, 299 say 'pair', which makes the single chair the exception rather than the norm. Sets of four and six turn up only a handful of times, and when they do they sit at the top of the range. A five-piece salon suite is about the largest grouping recorded.

How old are most of these chairs?

The dated field runs 1750 to 1940, with 228 listings carrying a clean year. The 19th century supplies 149 of them. Where decades are given they cluster from the 1860s to the 1930s, the 1900s and 1920s heaviest among them. Only 28 listings are dated to the 18th century.

Do all fauteuils come from France?

No. French appears in 308 titles, so the majority, but the heading also carries English, Italian and Dutch open armchairs of the same construction. Italian shows up a dozen times and Victorian a dozen more. Dutch, Piedmontese, Barocchetto and French colonial each surface once or twice.

What does Louis XVI style mean on a listing?

It describes the pattern, not the date. Louis XVI chairs have straight, often fluted legs; Louis XV chairs have cabriole legs. Nineteenth-century workshops reproduced both patterns in quantity, so 'style', 'revival' and 'in the manner of' mark a chair as a later version of an earlier design.

Which timbers and finishes turn up most?

Walnut leads at 89 titles, with carved walnut and French walnut recurring inside that group. Painted frames account for 58. Giltwood appears in 43 titles and mahogany in 28, the mahogany often tied to Empire, Restauration and Charles X forms.

What unusual fauteuils have come up?

A revolving fauteuil de bureau, a reclining mahogany and leather chair, and a children's pair each appear once. Restauration giltwood fauteuils said to come from the Palais des Tuileries sit at the very top of the range.

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A fauteuil is a French open-armed upholstered armchair, made with a show-wood frame and open sides, for sitting in salons and reception rooms where the chair was moved about and seen from all angles.