The Rococo Interior - Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris

Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1995. First edition. Red hard cover with gilt titles on spine. Some minor spotting to front board. Contents tight and clean with no inscriptions. 342pp. DW is tidy with some fading to spine. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.

This handsome book offers a comprehensive and stimulating account of the forms and functions of interior decoration in Parisian domestic architecture during the first half of the eighteenh century - the period generally known as the rococo. It charts the rapid and sometimes dramatic changes in both the style and the imagery of the art of that time, and explores in illuminating detail the relationship between social status and the consumption and display of decoration in public and private interiors...

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