Collection III — Northside Modelworks
Louis XVI & Directoire — 1760–1800
The collection for collectors who find beauty in restraint. Fluted columns, laurel garlands, the oval medallion back of the fauteuil à médaillon. The architecture of the private apartment — disciplined, refined, and more interested in proportion than in ornament.
The Marly Collection takes its name from the Château de Marly — Louis XVI's retreat from Versailles, and in spirit the most refined and intimate of the great French royal interiors. Where Versailles declares, Marly converses. It is the architecture of the private apartment rather than the state room — disciplined, restrained, and more interested in proportion than in ornament.
The Louis XVI and Directoire periods represent a moment of deliberate architectural correction. The exuberance of the Rococo is set aside. Columns are fluted. Ornament is drawn from antiquity — laurel garlands, acanthus in its classical rather than Baroque form, paterae, rams' heads, ribbon-tied husks. Furniture becomes more architecturally legible: straighter legs, cleaner silhouettes, the oval medallion back of the fauteuil à médaillon replacing the serpentine forms of the Louis XV period.
The Marly Collection moves across the full arc of this transition — from the refined luxury of the early Louis XVI interior through the more austere geometry of the Directoire. It is the collection for collectors who find beauty in restraint.
Photographed in the studio's Louis XVI reception room and stair hall.
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Marly Collection
France, c. 1780 — Louis XVI
The defining seating form of the Louis XVI period — oval medallion back, turned and fluted legs, upholstered seat and back panels. Ships unassembled for CA glue assembly.
Based on documented examples by Georges Jacob, the preeminent menuisier of the Louis XVI period; type illustrated in period sales catalogues.
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Marly Collection
France, c. 1775 — Louis XVI
Demi-lune console with fluted tapering legs, laurel-wreath frieze, and marble slab top. The essential hall and salon piece of the Louis XVI interior.
Based on console types produced by the ébénistes of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine; comparable examples at Versailles and in private collections.
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Marly Collection
France, c. 1785 — Louis XVI
Standing three-branch girandole on tripod base with urn shaft. The standard candlestand form of the Louis XVI interior — elegant, architectural, and formally correct.
Based on gilt-bronze girandole types produced in the Parisian workshops of the 1780s; prototypes in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
The Marly Collection offers the finest Louis XVI and Directoire dollhouse furniture and Neoclassical miniature architecture at 1:12 scale — fauteuils à médaillon, demi-lune consoles, girandoles, and architectural elements drawn from documented French prototypes. The collection is currently being photographed in the studio's Louis XVI reception room and stair hall. New pieces will be added as documentation is completed.
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