{"id":1559,"date":"2017-09-29T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:38:52","slug":"the-definitive-oeben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/2017\/09\/29\/the-definitive-oeben\/","title":{"rendered":"The definitive Oeben\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBack when this weblog first started, Ronaldo Messina, a reader in Paris, sent me a copy of the book, \u201cJean-Fran\u00e7ois Oeben\u201d<\/a> by Rosemarie Stratmann-D\u00f6hler. It\u2019s a fantastic resource covering the life and work of Oeben (Thanks Ronaldo!). Dr. Stratmann-D\u00f6hler is a German historian, and this book is actually a modified version of her dissertation, some 30 years elapsed. Opening chapters set the stage by detailing Oeben\u2019s contemporaries, and focusing on the details of his life, death, clients, and business. The balance of the book presents the furniture in a series of logical groups: large\/small furniture, writing furniture, mechanical tables, etc. There are even sections on the marquetry and ormolu decorations with which he embellished pieces. In the conclusion, Dr. Stratmann-D\u00f6hler puts Oeben into the context of his time. <\/p>\n

As good as this book is, the problem for me is that it\u2019s written in French, a language which I neither speak, nor read\u2026<\/p>\n