Editing French Directory (section)

=== Furniture and decoration – the ''Directoire'' style ===
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[[File:Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, (14765802365).jpg|thumb|Furniture and objects in the Directory style]]
The Directory had no public money to spend on architecture, but the newly-wealthy upper class had abundant money to buy châteaux and town houses, and to redecorate them. The style of interior decoration, known as the ''[[Directoire style]]'', was one of the notable contributions of the period. It was a transitional style, a compromise between the [[Louis XVI style]] and [[Neoclassicism in France|French neoclassicism]]. [[Riesener]], the famous furniture designer for Louis XVI, did not die until 1806, though his clientele changed from the nobility to the wealthy new upper class. The Directory saw the first widespread use of [[mahogany]], an imported tropical wood used in the making of furniture.
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