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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 308

An illustration from An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, 1900, leaf 308 — o3 390 Empire Style. CHAIRS. Early 19th Century … The Empire style isfounded on the ancientRoman and Greek styles.After the Italian warsand the Egyptian expe-dition were over, theFrench seem to haveturned towards an as-sumption of classicalism—imitating the oldclassical ideals — andcarrying it so far as toimitate in the shape ofthe backs of…

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