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Grohé, Guillaume
(b Wintersheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt [now Hessen], 9 Feb 1808; d Neuilly-sur-Seine, 6 April 1885). German furniture-maker, active in France. He came to Paris c. 1827 with his older brother, Jean-Michel Grohé (b 1804), and became a journeyman. In 1829 the brothers started manufacturing and selling furniture. Their business developed rapidly as demonstrated by their success at the eighth Exposition de l’Industrie (Paris, 1834) where they showed Egyptian- and Gothic-style furniture. At the tenth Exposition de l’Industrie, in 1844, they won a gold medal with an octagonal ebony dressoir (design, Paris, Mus. A. Déc.), decorated with sculpted figures designed by Michel-Joseph-Napoléon Liénard (1810–c. 1875). In 1862 Guillaume Grohé showed at the International Exhibition, London, where he won a medal with a piece in the Louis XVI style, decorated with chased bronze sculpture by the brothers François-Auguste Fannière (1818–1900) and François-Joseph-Louis Fannière (1822–97). One of the principal furniture-makers of his period, he built a reputation as a specialist in high-quality, 18th-century French reproduction furniture (buffet, c. 1845; Chantilly, Mus. Condé) and supplied furniture to Queen Victoria, Louis-Philippe, Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress Eugénie. An article in Le Figaro (Jan 1884) deemed him a worthy successor to André-Charles Boulle, Pierre Gouthière and Jean-Henri Riesener.
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