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Instead, a vintage Louis XVI giltwood upholstered fauteuil delicately sits in one home’s sitting rooms alongside a 1920s Georgian wingback lounge velvet chair.—
Isiah Magsino,
Town & Country,
13 Dec. 2022 The 250-year-old Macret commode is expected to realize between $832,000 and $1.25 million, while the Jacobs fauteuil has a pre-auction estimate of $104,000 to $208,000.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
17 Nov. 2022 His Southern antiques include a mid-19th-century mirror that reflects light from its perch on a console table, expanding the space, and a French fauteuil chair Mr. Carroll picked up in New Orleans years ago.—
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans,
WSJ,
20 May 2022 There are a pair of Louis XV fauteuils, a pair of Louis XV bergères, a pair of Jules Cavailles paintings that my mother and father bought on their first trip to Paris in the late '50s.—
Christine Pittel,
House Beautiful,
2 Oct. 2012
Word History
Etymology
French, from Old French faudestuel, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German faltistuol folding chair — more at faldstool