Type of mahogany used by French cabinet makers?

Answer 1

Mahogany didn't really become fashionable until Louis XVI ...the cabinetmakers depended mostly on walnut, pear wood cherry and oak. It became more and more fashionable during the Neoclassical period to use a veneer of plain mahogany, imported from Central America and the West Indies.... a hard, close-grained mahogany which was strikingly veined or mottled. Finely chiseled mounts in a variety of antique motifs such as scrolls, fretwork, interlaced bands and palmettes, columns and caryatids, or plaques with classical scenes were used as decoration for furniture with mahogany veneer.There were beautiful pieces with marquetry made of kingwood, satinwood, rosewood, fruit woods, tulip wood, lemon wood, etc., which were used to lighten up the look of the pieces.
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Answer 5

Most of the wood came from the Ivory Coast, an ex-French colony. (Read "Saunders of the River")

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