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Bonheur du jour
A bonheur du jour (in French, ''bonheur-du-jour'', meaning "daytime delight") is a type of lady's writing desk. It was introduced in Paris by one of the interior decorators and purveyors of fashionable novelties called ''marchands-merciers'' about 1760, and speedily became intensely fashionable.〔F.J.B. Watson once suggested that "its somewhat obscure name perhaps refers to its sudden and astonishing success." (Watson, ''Louis XVI Furniure'' (Tiranti ) 1960:23, note 8); the first appearance of the term ''bonheur du jour'' that he identified was in 1770, in an inventory of the duc de Villars' property at Marseille.〕 The bonheur du jour is always very light and graceful,〔 with a decorated back, since it often did not stand against the wall (''meuble meublant'') but was moved about the room (''meuble volant''); its special characteristic is a raised back, which may form a little cabinet or a nest of drawers, or open shelves, which might be closed with a tambour may simply be fitted with a mirror. The top, often surrounded with a chased and gilded bronze gallery, serves for placing small ornaments. Beneath the writing surface there is usually a single drawer,〔 often neatly fitted for toiletries or writing supplies. Early examples were raised on slender cabriole legs; under the influence of neoclassicism, examples made after about 1775 had straight, tapering legs. The ''marchand-mercier'' Simon-Philippe Poirier had the idea of mounting bonheurs du jour with specially-made plaques of Sèvres porcelain that he commissioned and for which he had a monopoly; the earliest Sèvres-mounted bonheurs du jour are datable from the marks under their plaques to 1766-67.〔Svend Eriksen, ''Early Neo-Classicism in France'' (London: Faber & Faber) 1974, plate 111, bonheur du jour stamped by Martin Carlin in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris; another with plaques dated for 1766 is in the James A. de Rothschild collection, Waddesdon Manor.〕 The choicer examples of the time are inlaid with marquetry or panels of Oriental lacquer,〔 banded with exotic woods, with gilt-bronze mounts.
By the mid-1770s the bonheur du jour was being made in London, where it was simply called a "lady's writing-desk".
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