Boiserie or carved paneling is not for everyone. However, one of the most important and valuable architectural elements that provides a room its warmth, majestic grace, and inborn elegance is boiserie.
Boiserie is a french word for sculptured or superbly carved paneling, and were very common in the grand salons of chateaux and palaces of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. A reduced-form of boiserie, is wainscot, which is less sculptured and ornate.
For collectors and bibliophiles, boiserie provides an elegant backdrop for their collections to live and breathe; telling as it were interesting stories about their provenance.
The finest of boiserie is very expensive to produce or reproduce. Most of the boiserie walls that grace period rooms in museums were dismantled from palaces, chateaux and hôtel particuliers.
Feau et Cie, a company founded in Paris 1875, always has been a good place to look for french boiserie. And a rendition of both the french and italian boiserie can be sourced through Boiserie Italia.
Feau et Cie, a company founded in Paris 1875, always has been a good place to look for french boiserie. And a rendition of both the french and italian boiserie can be sourced through Boiserie Italia.
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| Napoleon III Apartments - Grand Salon (Louvre) |
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| Rare 1680 Boiserie via Feau et Cie |
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| From Boiserie Italia |
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| Marie Antoinette Study |
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Hôtel Particulier Neuilly sur Seine |
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18th Century Boiserie |
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| Neoclassical Boiserie |
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| Boiserie attributed to Claude-Nicolas Ledoux via Feau et Cie |
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| Boiserie by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann in the Great Hall of the Paris apartment of Lord Rothermere (1868-1940) via Feau et Cie |
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| Louis XVI Boiserie from Baudart Hotel St. James via Feau et Cie |
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| Louis XVI Style Boiserie via Feau et Cie |
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