Table

Round table in rosewood and rosewood marquetry (diamond) Stamped "Escalier De Cristal Paris" Louis XVI style. It opens with a central drawer and a leather-covered belt pull. The legs are fluted, partly conical and gilded sabots. The table is stamped under the top "Escalier de Cristal à Paris" Louis XVI style - 20th century period. Heir to the great merchants of the 18th century, Escalier de Cristal was a famous company under the Restoration. It was created in 1802 by the widow Barthelemy Desarnaud and her brother Philippe Auguste Charpentier, taken over in 1830 by Boin, tailor, then in 1840 by Pierre-Isidore Lahoche. In 1852, the latter joined forces with his son-in-law, Emile-Augustin Pannier, who became Pannier, Lahoche et Cie in 1867. The high quality of its production brought the store a clientele princely. It included the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria, the Kings of Spain, Portugal, Prussia, Holland... As early as 1891, the Escalier de Cristak appeared in the Dido-Bottin almanac for the first time in the section "Manufacture and trade of furniture. Fancy furniture and small furniture, note the partnership with the greatest cabinetmakers of the time such as Majorelle. Finally, the First World War and the Russian Revolution of 1917 undermined the luxury trade and especially the wealthy clientele of the store largely composed of the Aristocracy and the death of the main Russian heir. The store closed in 1923.