[[File:Armchair (fauteuil) MET DP276258.jpg|thumb|Louis Delanois, Armchair (Metropolitan Museum)]] ''' Louis Delanois''' (1731–1792) was a Parisian ''menuisier'' who specialized in seat furniture in the late Rococo taste and an advanced neoclassical taste.<ref>Svend Eriksen, ''Louis Delanois, Menuisier en Sièges (1731-1792)'' Paris, 1968.</ref> Among his notable patrons were mme du Barry, the comte d'Artois, brother of the king, Philippe, duc de Chartres and the duc de Condé. Foreigners like the king of Poland and the duke of Dorset<ref>His purchases, amounting to 5,339 ''livres'', have not been found at Knole or Drayton.</ref> also bought furniture from Delanois, whose manuscript account book survives in the Archives de la Seine. His attempts, after selling off his furniture business in 1777,<ref>His son became a priest and his daughter died unmarried, Eriksen reports (Eriksen 1968), and there was no obvious heir to carry on.</ref> to extend his business into the timber trade and property speculation, however, resulted in bankruptcy by 1789.
Georges Jacob may have been a journeyman for three years with Delanois throughout the 1760s.
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==Further reading== *{{cite book |author=Parker, James & Le Corbeiller, Clare| title= ''A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' | location=New York | publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art | url= http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/35238/rec/1 | year=1979| isbn=0-87099-186-8}} (see index: p. 127-128; illustrations: p. 122-123)
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