Non-Ottoman and non-Turkish gaudiness

When I saw the gaudy chairs German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seated in during her visit to Turkey, I took a look at the photos of Sultan Abdülaziz and Sultan Abdul Hamid; no, they did not have such gaudy armchairs. 

It is not tasteful splendor, it is only gaudiness. The correct word for these armchairs and for the presidential palace in Ankara is "gaudy."

While such ornaments are used to create some grandness, some highness, it is also for show, for magnificence? Architect Ahmet Serbesto?lu, who renovated the chairs, said, "I also find these armchairs too pompous."   

These chairs were brought from France during the time of Sultan Abdülaziz. Apparently the French built these "oriental" style chairs for the "Oriental Palace" they imagined.

Orientalism was the image of the East in the mind of the West. 

Including Dolmabahçe Palace, there were no such gaudy, throne-like chairs in Ottoman palaces. It must have been that the Ottomans did not like them either because they did not use them. They were found in depots years later in a poor state and they have been restored. 

Art historian Nurhan Atasoy said, "Armchairs have entered our houses, our palaces with westernization. The armchairs of the Ottoman palaces were made at Pera [Beyo?lu], Istanbul, or they were ordered from Europe. These chairs were designed by the French based on what they imagined the Ottoman taste would be; for this reason, indeed they are orientalist. They envisioned them as thrones and added a crescent on top." 

Atasoy said the gold color applications were very bright because they were new and they were too eye-catching for historical décor. She added she did not like them either. 

So, these armchairs are not "Ottoman;" they are...