The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 271
, in mollifying the severer straight constructional formsand giving an air of graceful unbending. Certain it is that theLouis Quinze style in decorative furniture is best summarised as thetriumph of the curve in construction as well as in ornament. Among other alterations carried out at Versailles… … DET.VILS OF CAKVF.n TRrMEAf BY ItOFFRANDHdTEL DK SOUBISE, PARIS. THE UEGENCE AND LOUIS XV. PERIODS 199 destroyed in turn by the alterations and redecorations of LouisPhilippe in 183U,—a regrettable act, for the carved and mirroredhoiseries or WALL PANELLINGS, such as are shown in Colour Plate…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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