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The New Eighteenth-Century Style: Rediscovering a French Decor

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The New Eighteenth-Century Style: Rediscovering a French Decor - Lalande, Michele, and Trillard, Gilles (Photographer)
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With the restoration of the Pompadour apartments at Versailles, there is a renewed interest in the opulent fashions in interior decoration of the eighteenth century. The use of turquoise with gold accents, the lush velvet upholstery and the expensive iridescent wall hangings all bear witness to a style that indulged in spite of revolutions, wars, looting and fires. Lalande and Trillard reveal the harmony between antique extravagance and contemporary decoration that characterises the revival of this style. They survey thirty ...

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The New Eighteenth-Century Style: Rediscovering a French Decor 2006, ABRAMS, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780810954960

Hardcover