A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Desk Chair by François Linke

A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Desk Chair by François Linke.

French, Circa 1910.

Signed 'F. Linke' to one acanthus clasp.

Linke made six versions of this chair in two sizes, in mahogany or satiné, upholstered or caned.  One with gilt-bronze mounts, like the present example, was made for the important American client Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge in 1913.

François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet maker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and possibly the most sought after cabinet maker of his period.

He was born in 1855 in the small village of Pankraz, in what is now the Czech Republic.  Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with the master cabinetmaker Neumann, then in 1875 at the age of 20 he arrived in Paris where he lived until he died in 1946.

It is known that the fledgling Linke workshops were active in Paris in the Faubourg St. Antoine as early as 1881, and during this time he supplied furniture for other more established makers such as Jansen and Krieger.

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