Armchair, Louis XV - 2nd third of the 18th century, Switzerland or Germany

Walnut wood carved with curved and carved legs

Dimensions: 95 x 62 x 59 cm

Discover the unique, freshly upholstered seating furniture, carefully covered in white in our upholstery workshop in northern Italy.

You now have the opportunity to select the upholstery fabric in our showroom according to your personal taste, and we will manufacture your individual seating furniture with the highest Swiss craftsmanship right here in Bern.

The work will be quoted to you individually after you complete your order. We place great emphasis on the highest level of perfection to ensure that your seating is not only comfortable, but also a unique work of art.

Provenance: Estate of Albert & Rudolf von Gross (Dermbach 1912 & 1914-2002), sons of Siegfried von Gross (1870-1955), District Governor of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Captain of the Prussian Guard, Castellan of Dermbach, OSJ, and Johanna Ziegler (1877-1945), EHL-doctorate in law, hotelier in Ain-Diab, Casablanca, Morocco (adopted in 1925 by Henri von Rott). Liliane Peter, various surnames Liautaud (1915-1987), died in 1953. No descendants. (www.vongross.org)

The von Gross family is a patrician family originally from Zofingen in Aargau, where they lived from the mid-16th century (as members of the Pfistern Society). They were members of the Grand Council from 1645 until 1798. The von Gross family provided the Bernese city clerk four times. Numerous members served on the council, as well as officers in the service of France, Holland, England, and Piedmont. Franz-Gabriel von Gross (1715-1785) was a Bernese general, chamberlain to Saxe-Weimar, and commandant of the Grand Ducal military academy. The family owned the Trevelins estate near Aubonne and the Hubel estate in Habstetten. They received the title of Baron in Vienna in 1783 from Emperor Joseph II of Austria.

With the death of Karl Rudolf Hermann von Gross (1824-1899), an officer in Austria, a Bernese branch of the family became extinct in 1899. The Weimar branch, with Siegfried Wilhelm Gabriel von Gross (1870-1955) and his two sons Rudolf von Gross (1912-2002) and Albert von Gross (1914-2002), who held doctorates in law and political science respectively, settled in Bern after leaving Nazi Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933.