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Charles Cressent[shArl kresAN´] Pronunciation Key, 1685–1768, French cabinetmaker, one of the chief creators of the rEgence style. Although at first a sculptor and bronze craftsman, he studied under the furniture designer Boulle and became official cabinetmaker to the regent Philippe II, duc d'OrlEans. Examples of his furniture display a strong and majestic beauty, with subtly curving supports and swelling surfaces. Against their veneers of mahogany and ebony stand lavish relief adornments in superbly modeled gilt bronze : the scrolls, shells, female busts, and dragons typical of rEgence decoration. Pieces by Cressent are in the Louvre and in the Wallace Collection, London.
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