Madame Récamier’s daybed
The daybed with scrolled ends named after the salon hostess Juliette Récamier.
The Jacob brothers furnished Juliette Récamier’s house in Paris around 1798, and Jacques-Louis David painted her on such a bed in 1800. A récamier today means a daybed with two ends. The bed is in the Louvre.
Materials: Mahogany with gilt bronze
Manufacture: Solid mahogany, the ends scrolling outward like an antique bed; bronze mounts screwed on.
The ends roll outward in a curve like a swan’s neck.
Smooth mahogany surfaces with a few gilt-bronze mounts – antiquity as fashion.