Named the Marie Antoinette for the flowered silk it wears, this armchair is the low, round-backed crapaud that France built its salons around in the 1800s. The silk brocade is the whole reason for the name, roses and trailing flowers woven into a golden ground, the same court taste for flowered silk that Marie Antoinette made famous at Versailles a century before. Good furniture of the period showed no legs at all, the frame buried in upholstery and finished with a deep skirt of bullion fringe so the chair seems to rise straight out of the floor in a single sweep of silk. Picture it by candlelight in a room where the evening is still going, the gold catching the light while someone sinks in and decides not to get up. Sylvie sets it in a corner of a bedroom or a dressing room, a lamp beside it and a silk cushion she will not admit she bought just to match.
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