 He is best known for his commodes, book cases and desks, which were often inlaid with rosewood and violet wood and equipped with particularly fine rocaille ornament of gilded bronze, including infants intermingled with birds and cascading vegetation.He introduced several stylistic innovations, including the "espagnolettes à aigrette", small busts of young women, applied to the corners of his commodes and desks.This became a common decoration used by other masters of the rocaille.