American Empire (style)
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American Empire is a French-inspired Neo-classical style of American furniture and decoration that was initiated just before 1800 and is most famously exemplified by the furniture of Duncan Phyfe and Paris-trained Honoreacute Lannuier. Two major centers of American Empire style cabinet-making were New York and Baltimore. Simplified versions of American Empire furniture, with plain veneers and panels of stencilled decoration, an American version of Central European Biedermeier style, continued to be made in conservative centers past the mid-century.