"The whole chain of the art market has been caught by the counterfeiters": a scandal of false 18th-century furniture acquired by the Palace of Versailles on trial this Tuesday

The antiquarian Bill Pallot and the cabinetist Bruno Desnoues are accused of having deceived the world of art for several years with a trade in false furniture of the eighteenth century. After ten years of investigation, they will be tried from Tuesday 25 March alongside the Kraemer gallery.

Reputable specialists of the furniture of the eighteenth century converted into forgers of genius to works able to fool up to the Palace of Versailles: the court of Pontoise judges from Tuesday a scandal of false historical furniture that shook the felted microcosm of antique dealers and heritage.