Career
Étienne Doirat (c 1675-1732) was a French furniture designer. His family had been ébénistes in Paris since the early 1600s. Doirat designed "commodes, armoires, corner cupboards, and tables" as well as sideboards, writing desks, et cetera
He used exotic wood like amaranth, mahogany, olivetree wood, lemontree wood, rosewood, ebony, et cetera
Doirat stamped his name to his furniture at a time when it was not the proper way. Indeed, furniture design guilds only allowed it was late as 1743.
In 1731, only one year before his death, he opened a store on the Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. One of his commodes can be seen at the Jean Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
He died in 1732.