Furnishing the home of good taste : a brief sketch of the period styles in interior decoration with suggestions as to their employment in the homes of today (1912)
Throop, Lucy Abbot · New York : McBride, Nast · leaf 62
second style of this period was a softeningand refining of the earlier one, becoming more and moredelicate until it merged into the time of the Regency. Itwas during the reign of Louis XIV that the craze forChinese decoration first appeared. La Chinoiserie it wascalled, and it has daintiness and a… … One of a set of three rare Louis XIV chairs, beautifully carved and gilded, andsaid to have belonged to the great Louis himself
Interior decoration · House furnishings · Furniture -- History
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