Alexander Roux signed the bronze mounts of this Victorian chair in the Louis XVI Revival style. Identifying the maker of a piece of antique furniture is not always so easy.
Identifying furniture can be tricky. Crediting a maker is often a matter of “style” or “attributed to.” Some makers’ names come to mean entire styles or time periods, like Chippendale for example.
Some styles remain popular for centuries or get revived multiple times. Well-made copies of early pieces can even fool museums.
So, when you find a piece of antique furniture with a maker’s mark or signatu…
