Vertiginous
Nicholas Penny, 12 December 1996
Grands Décors français 1650-1800
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,2 87844 023 4 Show More
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,
Chardin
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,0 500 09259 1 Show More
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,
“... The rococo style transformed the character of the domestic interior. First in France, where the style originated in the late 17th century, and then in the rest of Europe, rooms were created which were lighter and more elegant and charming than those of any previous period. They were also audacious, often astonishingly so, in their treatment of space and their denial of solidity or stability ... ”
