biography
| name: |
Buhl or Boulle, André-Charles
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pronunciation:
[bool]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1642–1732)
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| biography:
| Cabinet-maker, born in Paris, France. As the finest practitioner in Paris, he was appointed royal cabinetmaker at Versailles in 1672 by Louis XV. His speciality was fine furniture covered in tortoiseshell marquetry and brass, and the style he created, named boullework or buhl after him, thrived well into the 19th-c - a technique carried on by his sons, Jean, Pierre, André, and Charles Buhl.. He took his inspiration from the Italian and Flemish schools of art and the designs of Jean Berain. The spelling Buhl is a 19th-c distortion. |
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