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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.

"Scott is interested not so much in the aesthetics of Rococo interiors as in what they, and the extensive documentation surrounding them, reveal about social and political mores of the time. Her examination of craftsmen's working practices, however, is fascinating....and...excellent large illustrations are positioned in the text close tow here they are mentioned."

Annabel Freyberg, Literary Review, 01/1996

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