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Born August 11, 1743
Died February 12, 1807 (aged 63) • Wiesbaden • Germany
Movement / Style Neoclassical art • Rococo
Abraham Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Gerrit Jensen
British artist
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
Phyfe, Duncan: card table
Duncan Phyfe
American furniture designer
John Cobb
English cabinetmaker
Thonet, Michael: bentwood chair
Michael Thonet
Austrian furniture maker
Adam Weisweiler
French cabinetmaker
John Henry Belter
American cabinetmaker
Christopher Townsend
American cabinetmaker
John Rowe Townsend
British author
Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Stephen Goddard
American cabinetmaker
John Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Cartel clock with Louis XIV clockcase by Charles Cressent; in the Wallace Collection, London
Charles Cressent
French cabinetmaker
Gustav Stickley
American designer
Majorelle, Louis
Louis Majorelle
French cabinetmaker
Jewel casket on a stand, veneered with mahogany, sycamore, and purplewood, by Jean-Henri Riesener, c. 1780; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Jean-Henri Riesener
German cabinetmaker