CHRISTIE'S
Armchairs — The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue
27.01.2021 10:00 UTC +01:002021-01-27T10:00:00+01:00United Kingdom, London, 8 King Street, St. James'sCHRISTIE'S
London,
United Kingdom
Lot 251 A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD AND CANED FAUTEUIL DE BUREAU
Georges Jacob (1739 - 1814) 
Georges Jacob
06.06.1739 - 05.07.1814
France
Georges Jacob, nicknamed Jacob the Elder, was a famous furniture maker of the French Neoclassical period. He was a pupil of Louis Delanois. Georges Jacob lived a long and rich life, during which he worked in many styles. He started out as a Rococo master in 1765 and was a supplier to the royal court and in particular to Marie-Antoinette (Queen of France since 1774), but soon moved on to the more austere style of French Neoclassicism and, later, Empire.
Lot 271 A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS
Thomas Chippendale (1718 - 1779) 
Thomas Chippendale
05.06.1718 - 13.11.1779
United Kingdom
Thomas Chippendale was a cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director — the most important collection of furniture designs published in England to that point which created a mass market for furniture—upon which success he became renowned. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, «so influential were his designs, in Britain and throughout Europe and America, that "Chippendale" became a shorthand description for any furniture similar to his Director designs».
