With a number of students woodcarving on educational trip in Liège | D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège | Liège style carvings and ornaments

With a number of students ornamental woodcarving
on an educational trip in the city of Liège, Belgium.

With a number of students woodcarving on educational trip in Liège | 

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège

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June 2018

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in June (2018) I had planned a short visit to the city of Liège (Belgium) with a number of students in ornamental woodcarving.  The fact is that on Saturday morning I teach the woodcutting course in the buildings of Syntra in Tongeren. So these trips can be very interesting and instructive for the student.

I try my very best to teach my students the delicacy of the Liège style and ornamentation. The city of Liège is about 20 minutes away from Tongeren. It is a city where you can easily spend a few days. Liège is historically important and is a city with a great variety of buildings and culture. A visit to the Museum d'Ansembourg was on the program.

This 18th-century mansion, built in the Liège style, is dedicated to 18th-century decorative arts and gives the visitor a good idea of the sophisticated lifestyle of the time. The museum has a wonderful collection of furniture from Liège, including refined carvings and inlays. All rooms are equipped with carpets and 18th-century Liège furniture from all sorts of stylistic periods. Some rooms have Cordoban leather wall coverings and Venetian-style glass chandeliers.

With a number of students, woodcarving on an educational trip in Liège |

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium

With a number of students, woodcarving on an educational trip in Liège |

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium

D'Ansembourg Museum | Liège style carvings

Liège garde-robe cabinet

D'Ansembourg Museum | Liège carvings, ornaments

Liège display cabinet

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège |  

Liège style carvings and ornaments

With a number of students, woodcutting on an educational trip in Liège, Belgium. |

D'Ansembourg Museum, courtyard

Heraldic coat of arms in stone |

d'Ansembourg Museum in Liège

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In the museum café of Musée Curtius in Liège (next to the d'Ansembourg Museum) we had to recover from all the beauty of the D'Ansembourg Museum and in the afternoon we had planned a short walk through the city of Liège, specifically Rue Hors-Chateau region.

A visit to the Montagne des Bueren, Impasse des Ursulines and the gardens of Liège were on the program.

This pleasant Saturday afternoon ended in the Italian restaurant I Giardini in the centre of Liège. The price quality is still excellent and unchanged since I first came here for dinner in 1987.

Montagne des Bueren in Liège

Impasse des Ursulines

gardens of Liège

 Italian restaurant I Giardini in the centre of Liège

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LIEGE STYLE FURNITURE | d'Ansembourg Museum in Liege | Period Style Furniture

The Palace of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège

 THE CITY OF LIEGE

The City of Liège, (Now Belgium) was the centre of a very wealthy bishopric that was situated between Flanders and Germany. Although part of the holy Roman Empire, its furniture is not typical of the German style. Some of the forms and the decoration came from France, but the result is too refined  to be classed as French provicial. 

Liege in the 17th Century

The industries of Liège had been stimulated by the wars of Louis XIV of France, and the Walloon (Now French speaking part of Belgium) population included many brilliant craftsmen.

The houses built by the 1730s include the Château de Seraing for the Prince-Bishop, and the Hôtel d'Ansembourg for the banker Michel Willems.

The d'Ansembourg Museum 

 

The craft guilds flourished, but very little furniture is actually signed. The principal wood was oak, carefully chosen for its fine quality, close grain, and consistent,delicate sheen. Some pieces were partly gilded and

painted, but bronze and ormolu were not used.

The most typical pieces are the great oak cupboards and buffets in one or two parts, tall clocks, commodes with four equal drawers and short feet, writing-tables, bureaux, and glazed cabinets and bookshelves.

The delicate carving, always carried out in solid wood, resembles that on French wall panelling. Furniture outlines were simple, and the effect, unlike yhat of Dutch or German furniture, was never bulky or ungainly.

Chairs were either in the French style and caned, or in the Germanic-Dutch tradition with back splats and loose seats.
These were often of walnut, ash or elm. For simple furniture , pine and beech were also used.

The city soon became famous for its Liége-Style furniture.( 18th century) It is characterized by beautifully and delicately carved decoration, usually with a thickness of 5 mm.

When you visit Liége, go see the d'Ansembourg Museum , the Museum is dedicated too Liége Style Furniture and the 18e Century interiors of Belgium.

 

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