A settee and four fauteuils Louis XVI (1774-1791) carved and gilt beech seats and backs upholstered in woolen yarn Aubusson tapestry with polychrome decoration "Garlands of flowers, plant windings and draperies", reserves en grisaille "Birds" and "Musical instruments" French carvings and gilding with minor faults, tapestries with restoration, faults and defects Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (canapé) 100 x 192 x 70 cm; (fauteuil) 97 x 70 x 62 cm Notes: "The textile upholstery of these pieces in the collection is decorated with paradigmatic motifs of the Neoclassical decorative repertoire, including drapery, garlands, and beaded motifs, as well as sentimental and rustic attributes, respectively a pair of doves and a flute and lute among ribbons. These pieces already feature a rectangular backrest and seat, straight legs joined at the waist by an intersecting cube filled with a rosette. However, although the flap is still curved, a remnant from the previous era (Louis XV), the armrests, previously recessed, now describe a slight curve, being inserted at the top of the front legs. These modifications follow the changes in women's fashion with the end of wide dresses and the adoption, by the ladies of the time, of lighter, simpler, and more flowing garments. behind the line of the front leg, as can be seen in another pair of chairs from the Olmos collection. In other French examples from this period, in However, the armrests are already directly integrated into the extension of the front leg. In all these armchairs, the carved decoration is simple and delicate, arranged in friezes that run along the backrest and the seat rim, composed of beads and rolled ribbons, as in the pair of collectible fauteuils à la Reine, or as in the set covered in Aubusson tapestry with "water leaves," rows of piastres (a type of coin), and discs. The legs are invariably turned and fluted, and the armrests are further emphasized by carved acanthus leaves. We find these sets of seating furniture thus designed in Portuguese interiors from the late 18th century, described as these "Twelve Chairs with walnut wood arms in Greek style with turned legs with seats and backs of blue embroidered silk with their chintz covers and with their brother settee used and valued at forty-eight "One thousand Reis." A very similar copy to the settee in this set, also covered in Aubusson tapestry, is kept in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris." - part of the exhibition "Colecção António Olmos" at the Cascais Municipal Museum. - vd. exhibition catalogue "Colecção António Olmos". Lisbon: Cascais City Council, 2009, pp. 171-172