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| marot, daniel | |
| french furniture designers | |
| 1661 births | |
| 1752 deaths | |
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In the Netherlands Marot was employed by the Stadthouder, who later became William III Of England ; in particular, he is associated with designing interiors in the palace of Het Loo , from 1684 on. Though his name cannot be attached to any English building (and he doesn't have an entry in Howard Colvin 's exhaustive ''Dictionary of British Architects'') we know from his own engraving that he designed the great hall of audience for the States-General at the Hague. He also decorated many Dutch country-houses. In 1694 , he traveled with William to London , where he was appointed one of his architects and Master of Works. In England his activities appear to have been concentrated at Hampton Court Palace , where he designed the Garden Parterre s, which were swept away in the following generation and have been restored at the end of the 20th century. Much of the furniture, especially the mirrors, gueridons and state beds, in the new State Rooms readied for William at Hampton Court bears unmistakable traces of his authorship; the tall and monumental embroidered state beds, with their plumes of ostrich feathers, their elaborate valances and cantonnieres agree very closely with his later published designs (''illustration, right''). In his Engraved designs, Marot's range was extraordinarily wide. He designed practically every detail in the internal ornamentation of the house: carved chimneypieces, plaster ceilings, panels for walls, girandoles and wall brackets, and side tables with their pairs of tall stands. He designed gold and silver plate. The craze for collecting china which was at its height in his time is illustrated in his lavish designs for receptacles for porcelain: in one of his plates there are more than 300 pieces of china on the chimney-piece alone. After William's death Marot returned to Holland, in 1698 , where he lived out his life. We owe much of our knowledge of his work to the folio volume of his furniture designs published at Amsterdam in 1712. Not surprisingly the designs show strong French and Dutch influences; what reads as their "English" look is more probably the result of Marot's court style on other London designers. EXTERNAL REFERENCE |
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