The Journal
The great styles
The great styles
of French decoration.
Five periods, five ornamental grammars. For each one: the context, the furniture, the materials, the colours, and what an interior today can take from them.
The Louis XIV style
Absolute symmetry, gilding and polychrome marbles: magnificence becomes an art of government.
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The Régence style
Suppleness and the first asymmetries: rigour gradually gives way to grace.
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The Louis XV style
Rocaille triumphs: intimacy prevails over display, and comfort becomes a virtue.
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The Louis XVI style
A return to the straight line and to antiquity: grace without emphasis.
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The Empire style
Gilt bronze, mahogany and antique symbols: the aesthetics of power.
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It always begins with a conversation
Shall we talk
Shall we talk
about your rooms?
A precise brief or a first intuition: a few words are enough to begin.