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The Paris Apartment is a style of interior design that draws inspiration from French boudoir aesthetics and traditional French decor. This design style emphasizes elegance and cohesion, incorporating elements such as ceilings, walls, trims, furniture, light fixtures, curtains, soft furnishings, books, and color palettes.
Divans are a common feature of the liwan, a long, vaulted, narrow room in Levantine homes. The divan in the sense of a sofa or couch entered the English language in 1702 and has been commonly known in Europe since about the middle of the 18th century. It was fashionable, roughly from 1820 to 1850, wherever the romantic movement in
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's drawing room at No. 16 Cheyne Walk, 1882, by Henry Treffry Dunn. Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament.
With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...
The concepts that were presented in his The Romantic Agony have been shaped into his design and art criticism. This writing style has been successfully employed in Praz's two most noteworthy design books, The House of Life and An Illustrated History in Interior Design. These works highlight his theories of the interiority of a space, and reveal ...
Jules Leleu was a traditional furniture designer who moved smoothly into Art Deco in the 1920s; he designed the furniture for the dining room of the Élysée Palace, and for the first-class cabins of the steamship Normandie. his style was characterized by the use of ebony, Macassar wood, walnut, with decoration of plaques of ivory and mother of ...