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Paris, a chair-maker was a menuisier, or joiner: guild regulations forbade menuisiers to engage in cabinet making. Some menuisiers produced the planed and

furniture and other carved work was the province of a separate craft, the menuisiers. "d'un goût nouveau Metropolitan Museum's Oeben/R.V.L.C. table Gulbenkian

Eighteenth Century G. Janneau, 1975. Les ateliers parisiens d'ébénistes et de menuisiers aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Alexandre Pradère, 1990. French Furniture

The work of making furniture was strictly divided into several crafts: Menuisiers were allowed to work only on the wooden frame. Ébénistes applied the marquetry;

later Saint-Antoine Ward. Since 1799, the street was known as rue des Menuisiers, and the street bordered the land reserved for the city's fortifications

force until the Revolution, French chairmaking was the business of the menuisier alone, whose craft was conjoined with that of the upholsterer (huissier)

edition of Mechanick Exercises and André Jacob Roubo's 1774 L'Art du Menuisier. The term has been in use since at least the 16th Century. Use declined

from chair-makers and other furniture craftsmen working in solid wood (menuisiers). Tiling patterning has been more highly developed in the Islamic world

he published his masterwork treatise on woodworking, titled L'Art du Menuisier. This long-standing work covered practically all methods and trades associated

Corporation des Menuisiers-Ébénistes was a French craft guild which was concerned with the profession of woodworking. "Corporation des Menuisiers-Ébénistes