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

Katie Scott

Synopsis:
This lavishly illustrated 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 eighteenth 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 period and explores in detail the relations between social status and the consumption and display of decoration in Parisian houses.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2009, Softcover - 2006, 1994