Explore: Boiseries

often used in the plural boiseries) is the French term used to define ornate and intricately carved wood panelling. Boiseries became popular in the latter

Matignon, about 1732. Surviving. Fiske Kimball attributed the undocumented boiseries, ceiling stuccowork and mirrors To Pineau. Hôtel de Rouillé, about 1732

would have caused the building's interior to change its appearance. The boiseries, still often dated in the mid-1760s, were discussed in the issue of L'Avant-coureur

For other rooms, please see Servants' quarters The dining room (3). The boiseries, or elaborately carved wood panels, were from the Hôtel de Villars, Paris

The staterooms to the west of the saloon were redecorated with gilt boiseries in imitation of Versailles. Vanbrugh's subtle rivalry to Louis XIV's great

furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, Beauvais tapestries, French boiseries and Oriental carpets. After the assassination of Aldo Moro in 1978 by

palace, the walls of the Trianon were covered in delicately carved wood boiseries, with plaster friezes, pilasters, and capitals of noticeably more refined

the menuisier might also be called upon to provide carved and moulded boiseries for rooms. Lyon, Bordeaux and Liège all produced characteristic variations

and billiards rooms too were furnished with 18th-century panelling and boiseries. The theme continued up the grand, plaster panelled staircase to the bedrooms

intersection. It is one of the main features of the Lycée with its 18th-century boiseries and pavement as well as a cupola frescoed and carved by the painter Jean