Directoire Style

The Directoire style was a decorative arts and design movement in France that coincided with the French Directory government, from November 1795 to November 1799, in the later stages of the French Revolution. It used Neoclassical architectural forms with minimal carving, planar expanses of highly grained wood veneer and applied decorative painting, and served as a transitional style between the preceding Louis XVI style and the more elaborate Empire style that followed Napoleon's rise. Architects Charles Percier and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine were its principal designers, and the style reflected Revolutionary ideals celebrating republican Rome, with citizens naming children after figures such as Brutus and Solon and designers including Jacques-Louis David creating furniture and ceremonial settings modeled on antiquity. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/