163. Pair of small caned chairs of music room, carved and gilded wood, decorated with a ribboned rush and and rosettes in the spandrels of the back. Feet tapered and fluted legs with asparagus. Numbered 1029. Louis XVI style, circa 1900. 92 x 39 x 45 cm. (Small chips and gold wear). The recent book dedicated to the Escalier de Cristal presents the the famous notebooks written by Henry Pannier, which contain a great deal of a great deal of information: drawings, annotations, names of craftsmen names of craftsmen and clients. Among all the preparatory sketches, we find the model of chairs in gilded wood that we present, with the following description following description: "Chaises cannées L.XVI doré modèle Vente La Béraudière (Jacob) - (Nels)". The abbreviated mention of Nels for Nelson refers us to the cabinetmaker's house installed since 1856 at 46, rue de la Madeleine Madeleine in Paris, then taken over by his son Henri and transferred to 79, boulevard Haussmann. The Nelson house was a regular and important regular and important supplier of the Escalier de Cristal. It is interesting to observe the list of names of customers mentioned on the right side of the sketches, among them we note the names Frick (perhaps Henry Clay Frick, an American steel industrialist and American patron), the Countess Potocka, Lariboisière, Bibliography : MASSEAU, Annick and Didier, L'Escalier de Cristal, le luxe à Paris 1809-1923, published by Monelle Hayot, 2021