Bibliotheque du Roi - Library Table

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In 1774 Louis XVI ordered the creation of a vast and magnificent library. Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698 - 1782), of which this was his last royal creation, had to place it in the new room, in place of his grandfather's "Salon des Jeux" (game room). The neo-classical decor of woodwork and glass cabinets gradually gave way to very beautiful furnishings. Thus, a large round table carried by six tapered and fluted legs, enriched with discreet and refined gilded bronzes took place in the middle of the new room; it was delivered between 1775 and 1779 by Jean-Claude Quervel, cabinetmaker to the king established in Versailles. The table represents a remarkable technical and botanical curiosity: its top, more than two meters in diameter, was made in one piece in mahogany from Saint Lucia. Long used in Fontainebleau as a council table, the piece of furniture was able to return to its original location in 1957.

The library table, as the name suggests, was often placed in a home library. This was the room in a house where a gentleman would keep literature and also do his business transactions. These tables were usually round and sometimes called a drawing table. A drawing table is, in its antique form, a kind of multipurpose desk that can be used for any kind of drawing, writing, or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations, such as architectural drawings. The drawing table used to be very frequent in a study or private library, during the 18th century.

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