The Renaissance era is characterized by the diffusion of the emanating style of traditional antiquity (Greco-Roman) and the rejection of the Middle-Ages. It will end in the development of a specific style to this period, prolonging in a certain manner the inherited style. Decorations take as starting point scenes of the time, and carvings pointing out the Greco-Roman mythology (shells, arabesques, sheets of acanthus or rinceaux). The technique of marquetry makes its first appearance in France: which consisted in sticking wood plates of different colors made of wood different from the one of the piece of furniture, to create geometrical forms or vegetable or animal representations. In which relates to the assembly of the parts of the piece of furniture, the dovetails make their appearance. They allow the assembly of the elements at right angles.
New pieces of furniture are born: one finds in particular the cabinet (piece of furniture with several drawers with feet), the caquetoire (trapézoidal seat with a leaning back covered with a cushion) or the dresser called "Henri II". This last has a higher amoire, richly decorated, which rests on a lower cupboard broader and provided with column and with the uninterrupted pediment
