Martin Carlin
Martin Carlin (* 1730 in Freiburg im Breisgau in what was then Upper Austria ; † 1785) was a French cabinet maker of German origin who was admitted as maître in 1766 . His work can be assigned to the so-called transition style, which forms the transition from the Louis-quinze style to the Louis-seize style .
Life
The son of carpenter Trouper Carlin moved to Paris to become a cabinet maker. There he entered the workshop of Jean-François Oeben and married his sister Marie-Catherine Oeben in 1759.
For the marchands-merciers Poirier and Daguerre, he specialized in the production of high-quality pieces of furniture , which they sold for him. Although the choice of the royal favorite Madame Du Barry (1743–1793) fell on Carlin's dressers , for which the highest prices of the time were achieved, fell for the artisan , who lived in modest circumstances throughout his life, and for his Employee Jean-Jacques Pafrat only made a small profit.
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Carlin's work is inextricably linked with the sophistication of Parisian luxury goods and the extravagance of that time. His veneered furniture is often decorated with incrustations of painted porcelain plates or medallions from the royal Manufacture de Sèvres or stone mosaics , sometimes also with lacquer plates .
For a "Carlin et Weisweiler" stamped with a stone mosaic plate from a Florentine cabinet, which was formerly owned by the Rothschild family and the Saudi multi-billionaire Akram Ojjeh (1918–1991), was auctioned in Monaco in 1999 7.01 million euros offered.
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| SURNAME | Carlin, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cabinet maker of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg im Breisgau , in what was then Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1785 |