"The son of a certain Walter Latz, Jean-Pierre was born near Cologne, where he must have received his training, for when he settled in Paris in 1719, where he was received into the cabinetmakers´ guild, he was aged twenty-six. He always retained a certain German weightiness to his designs. When the practice of stamping the carcasses of furniture was introduced in Paris, Latz was already in full career. Nevertheless, his style is individual enough that a range of unstamped case furniture, writing tables and especially clock cases, his specialty, with close stylistic connections to stamped pieces, can be attributed to his workshop.[10] In some cases, carcases by Latz were veneered with marquetry in the shop of Jean-François Oeben,[11] or, possibly, by Roger Vandercruse Lacroix.[12]" - (en.wikipedia.org 26.12.2019)
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