Antiques Period Boston is your New England home for Louis XVI antiques. When figuring out how to upgrade one’s aesthetic some people try to bring more old furniture into their home and call it antique. Now I understand that having something that a king sat upon can be a really interesting talking piece but only if you have people to talk to about your Louis XVI antiques. I for one do not know anyone I could talk to about Louis’ antiques, whether he was the sixteenth or the 16 year old Lew I once knew. The Louis I knew didn’t even spell it the right way though, he spells it Lewis. So clearly he isn’t royalty quality unlike the antiques you will find at Antiques Period Boston.
Antiques Period was founded by François Bardonnet, a native of Paris. François has been interested in fine furniture since he was a child. This man is definitely not the man I knew twenty four years ago. He was raised in Paris by parents, avid collectors and connoisseurs themselves, who frequently took him to antique shows, auction houses, galleries and museums across Europe. My daughter is going to live near Paris this year. François studied art history in college in Paris and interned in London at Sotheby’s and the Victoria & Albert Museum. After graduating from college, François moved to New York where he received law degrees from Columbia University and worked for one of the best Wall Street law firms. My daughter wants to go to law school. I wonder if she is going to end up an dealer of old furniture such as Louis XVI antiques.
Upon deciding to pursue his passion for fine European furniture professionally in 2002, François worked with a top New York dealer. For some time, François traveled between New York and Boston, where he fell in love with the sense of history that makes Boston so beautiful. He moved to Boston fulltime in 2004.