No such thing as tedious art history when you've got a good professor.

Wow, how incredibly well-spoken this man is. Such a concise and informative delivery. These pieces are wonderful.

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you for this excellent, informative video. It was very interesting! I’ve been looking for videos showing the difference between 18th century English and French furniture, as it evolved through the century. Wonderful work!!

What a pleasure to listen to this knowledgeable man. Very informative video, thank you for making and uploading it.

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this comment and I'm glad you like video!

I'm learning English and good grammar with you

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching !

Outstanding!

Exellent lecture. You are very knowledgeable

@MyersMonroe

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏 glad you enjoyed it

I love these pieces but the louis XVl is my favorite. Neoclassical furniture is so elegant and graceful without being fussy.

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And yes the Louis XVI in the video really succeeds the understated elegance department.

@elizabethbrower640

2 жыл бұрын

@@MyersMonroe yes it does. Magnificent piece.

thank you

What a wonderful presentation of three wonderful pieces, so rare to see all together. Thank you so much

@MyersMonroe

10 ай бұрын

I really appreciate you kind comment - thank you for watching!

OMG!!! How can someone be so eloquent? The enunciation and intonation are impeccable. Great job, Cole!

@Theplaided1s

Жыл бұрын

Are you his mom? Lol

@user-wy6dk1ly6v

5 ай бұрын

Amused by the comments .Love the furnature . Good work Cole .

Glad to hear Thomas Jefferson had some saving "taste" with purchasing any Louis XVI style furniture, as he despised Rococo. Which is one of my favorites just for the sheer abandonment of the basic cube construction to a more "nature-all" curved shape which to me is so much more sensual. I know you could go on & on with the many details of these examples of transitioning taste, but i was immediately struck with the waxing and waning of ornamentation and surface detailing with the veneers between all three. The first one's simplified amount of wood types and clean curvature of the body shape to balance the heavy detailed ormolu. Were in the second chest with its simplified body and bronze work to balance with the many varieties of woods and patterns of the veneer, to the third where all aspects seemed to be stripped down to a restrained composition that still holds on to a gesture that has simple elegance & purity. The bowed belly to the geometric belly or block front. All beautiful examples of highly skilled craftsmen. {Typing this thought, it occurred to me how your demeanor and verbal expression are very similar to the field you are so passionate about....elegant, rich with details and charm, easy to look at, but unlike your subjects, i could listen to you for hours.} Thanks for another great & enjoyable Master Class ❣

can you do a video about WOODS? how to spot valuable wood items

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this idea - I have such a line up of pieces to do but this is on the list!

Great knowledge 👏🏽 👌

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

Thank you - glad you liked the video!

I love the "rouge Languedoc marbre" on the bombe commode. However I much prefer the transitional piece

Excellent presentation Cole! So concise and informative ❤

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - glad you liked it!

Can you do a video about furniture HARDWARE? I noticed the expensive furniture has very nice-looking Hardware but I'm having a hard time understanding different type of Hardware so that perhaps I can change the hardware on some of vintage items I have to make it look better

Awesome!!! Thanks for this video, love the honesty when you talk about this pieces ....more content like this please!

Outstanding video, well done and educational.

EXCELENT.

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Je suis français et je viens sur votre chaîne américaine pour apprendre plein de choses sur le patrimoine culturel de mon pays.

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

Cela est assez ironique mais je suis tout de même flatté et très content que le contenu soit assez profond pour intéresser un Français. On m’a appris que ces objets…tout ça n’est pas un décor mais une civilisation.

@andreschnaidt2476

10 ай бұрын

Быстро подменяйте понятия ...когда надо это цивилизация, а когда наше американское....Когда эти комоды появились на свет у вас была диктатура Кольта и индейцы носились по прериям.😊

Another marvelous video though you've left aside the easy tell tale sign that an original marble will always be slightly though percept ably uneven.Too, one might address the different marbles used,as for example the now outsourced marbre d'Alep,a favorite of mine. Many thanks, and best wishes.

Thank you very much for this excellent video. I have seen many videos on this subject and this one is one of the finest I have ever seen. In my opinion nothing compares in beauty, creativity, craftmanship and elegance to the French furniture created between 1660 and 1790. The only rivals I can think of at this moment are Thomas Chippendale and the Roentgen family from Germany.

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this kind comment. I very much agree - and many of the best French pieces were made at the hand of Germans working in Paris! I’ve been exploring the period of 1790-1830, at least some of the best and rarest pieces I can find from that relatively questionable period !

@arslongavitabrevis5136

Жыл бұрын

@@MyersMonroe I have just visited your website. Sadly, I shall never be able to purchase/own a beautiful piece of furniture as those that you have on display. However, thanks to the Internet I can "visit" beautiful antique shops, art galleries and museums without leaving my home and that means a lot to me. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina! PS: Regarding the brilliant German cabinet-makers working in France you are spot on, Riesener, Oeben and Weisweiler are wonderful examples of the aforesaid.

Are the commodes pieces without the glass or upper part to be certain l am infront of an original piece of commode, or????? I will like to understand better the difference between Commode and Chest of drawers.

how did you learn to speak with this vocabulary and effortlessly? how many books a week do you read? (and no a mere bachelor is not enough) what is it?

@gregoryburridge726

2 жыл бұрын

Probably by having been abroad or by frequenting those who have been. Cole's facility should be a birthright for each and all,but unfortunately there has been rampant déploiement of dumbing down of people to just consume comfort and remain inarticulate.

I know somebody else that would be interested in this. RALPH NADAR!

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

Please forward to Ralph 🙏

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@MyersMonroe

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Witty, unpredictable! I've never thought of furniture in such ways. I want to hear Cole describe the menu from a French restaurant. Why was the mercury guilding method abolished?

@MyersMonroe

Жыл бұрын

By the 1820s (late 1820s when it was finally abolished) they had noticed that the gilders were all dying very prematurely…. It was finally understood as toxic. The saying “mad as a hatter” comes from how hat makers used mercury to treat the beaver fur or something (not sure exactly but anyway the hatters would go nuts from prolonged mercury poisoning).

@christineribone9351

Жыл бұрын

@@MyersMonroe delightful trivia!! Thank you!

how did they achieve the SHINE or lacquer in the wood?

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

They applied a French polish ! Originally beeswax would have been used.

I love the form of the middle one, but I loathe the veneer as it's the height of bad taste. When I someday build my dream home (marble neoclassical mansion) I might have a carpenter make a copy of it in solid tulip popular to put in the foyer. If you ever get a chance read "living with antiques" by Alice Winchester do it because she focuses mostly on 18th century antiques and I think you would love it. :)

Ini di Jepara Indonesia banyak sih

@MyersMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting - I translated your message