Étienne Doirat (c. 1675-1732) was a French furniture designer.
Early life Étienne Doirat was born circa 1675.The J. Paul Getty Museum: Etienne Doirat His family had been ébénistes in Paris since the early 1600s.
Career
Doirat designed "commodes, armoires, corner cupboards, and tables" as well as sideboards, writing desks, etc.Stéphane Castelluccio, Le commerce du luxe à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: échanges nationaux et internationaux, London: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 185-186 He used exotic wood like amaranth, mahogany, olivetree wood, lemontree wood, rosewood, ebony, etc.
Doirat stamped his name to his furniture at a time when it was not the proper way. Indeed, furniture design guilds only allowed it was late as 1743.
In 1731, only one year before his death, he opened a store on the Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
One of his commodes can be seen at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.J. Paul Getty Museum: Commode
Personal life He married Marguerite Borel in 1704. They had seven children.
Death He died in 1732.
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