vely, took itsrevenge in the last quarter of the century. Thefamiliar and well-hated domination of the upholstererdates chiefly from the years following the Franco-German War, when a general prosperity of thepeople set in, a craving for luxury made itself feltin the middle classes, and no artistic… … maier style, the specifically German variation of the Empire ; but in the North, and also in theSouth, if, in a general way something higher was tobe attained, they had recourse to carving of themost complicated kind, or to imitations of Frenchcourt furniture. Gold lacquer and stucco…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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