Eloquence Inc. is a creative wholesale company, who is passionate about Stylish Interiors with a showroom in Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Their Mission is to scour the globe for French inspired pieces; we hunt for ‘Old World Glamour’. Discovering and Recycling well loved but forgotten antique treasures. These pieces are then restored from their faded former glory and re-created as Eloquence Classics.

They also gain great enjoyment from developing and designing fresh interpretations of French and European Classics. With their Antique Reproduction pieces they endeavor to capture the essence of the Louis XV & XVI styles, re-styling them to suit everyday use.

The idea behind Eloquence was to create furniture with such elegance that it needed no explanation. The pieces should speak for themselves. Hopefully, if they achieve our goal, Eloquence pieces will be treasured & appreciated from generation to generation.

Founders Amelia Cooke & Kim Redmond welcome you to the Eloquence website. They treasure all of our Client relationships, sell exclusively to the Retail & Design trades, and hope they can open some new possibilities to your interiors.

Antique art from the 1600s through to the mid 1700s, whether in the form of sculpture, painting, or antique furniture, falls under the category of Baroque style.

Baroque antique art, sculpture, painting, and antique furniture are characterized by a sense of dynamic movement and ornamentation rather than passive straight lines. Strong contrasts of light and shadow create a dramatic effect in many of the paintings, sculpture, antique lighting and even antique furniture from this period.

Some of the main features of Baroque antiques, painting and sculpture are the sense of broader space, freedom of movement and a preference for a more realistic depiction of perspective, shape, color and character.

Antiques and antique art from Louis XIV Baroque style evolved into a more delicate and refined rococo style in France during the reign of Louis XV. This style of antiques, sculpture, painting and even antique jewelry are less heavy and ostentatious yet are richly ornamented with delicate curved lines, arabesques, shells, asymmetric decoration and bright pastel colors. Antique art and other antiques decorative elements from this period portray light-hearted scenes and individuals rather than heavy, solemn and darker themes.

Louis XV rococo antique art and other antiques from the second half of the 1700s contain elements borrowed from Chinese art in some of their designs as well as an abundance of scenes from nature.

The graceful ornamentation and freedom found in rococo antiques, antique furniture and antique art subsided by the end of the 1700s. During this period we find a preference in antique art and antique furniture for symmetry and more sober classical themes borrowed from neoclassical Greco-Roman art and architecture. Playful curves and decorative designs in antiques were replaced by straight lines, right angles and a much simpler and austere style. Decorative scenes from nature and flowers in antique furniture, antique chandeliers and candelabra, antique china and porcelain are replaced by classical themes and designs during the late 1700s, leading up to the French Revolution and into the early 1800s.

Neoclassical style antiques, antique art and antique furniture from the end of the 1700s and after the French Revolution drastically exclude the playfulness and idyllic sensuality of the rococo style. The unrestrained gracefulness we find in rococo antiques and antique art is replaced by the solemn lines and structured symmetry of ancient Greece and the Roman Republic.

It is easy to see the elements from each different style of antiques in antique sculpture: antique art and sculpture showing majestic lines and curves and heavy ornamentation are typical of the Baroque style period up to the mid 1700s. Antique art and sculpture from the late Baroque and rococo period incorporate colored marble as well as drastic twisting in the figures’ poses. By the end of the 1700s, sculpture follows the austere passive lines and profile characteristic of the neoclassical style, where white marble is preferred over colored marble.