. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . CHIMNEYPIECE. AUDIENCE policy of aggrandisement CHAMBER. PALAIS DE aud dcspotisni, which JUSTICE. RENXES. • 1 • „ 1 1 -L • seriously crippled hispower abroad, whilst his despotism at homeundoubtedly sowed the seed of permanentpopular hostility to the Bourbon dynasty. THE STYLE If it be true that France and the worldare likely in future to hold the style ofLouis XIV. in moderate estimation—as com-pared with those of Louis xv. and xvi.—one has to observe that it is no barren. FACSIMILE OF DESIGN BY DAXIELMAROT. CHIMNEYPIECE OVER-
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . CHIMNEYPIECE. AUDIENCE policy of aggrandisement CHAMBER. PALAIS DE aud dcspotisni, which JUSTICE. RENXES. • 1 • „ 1 1 -L • seriously crippled hispower abroad, whilst his despotism at homeundoubtedly sowed the seed of permanentpopular hostility to the Bourbon dynasty. THE STYLE If it be true that France and the worldare likely in future to hold the style ofLouis XIV. in moderate estimation—as com-pared with those of Louis xv. and xvi.—one has to observe that it is no barren. FACSIMILE OF DESIGN BY DAXIELMAROT. CHIMNEYPIECE OVER- MANTEL WITH SHEL^•ES LOUIS XIV. 328 DECORATIVE FURNITURE thing to have inspired French decorative art towards distinctlynational modes of expression, and, moreover, to have given a definite and homogeneous trend to all decorative detailscarried out during the period. That Louis xiv. wearied of the pompoussolemnity of his style, and gave the inception tothe lighter, freer, and more voluptuous modeassociated with the name of his successor, withits nymphs, rose garlands, shepherdesses, andcupids, can scarcely be doubted when one readshis note upon a drawing of his architect, Mansart:That something must be changed, that thesubjects are too serious, and that youth must beintroduced into what is to be done. You willbring me some drawings—or at least some thoughts—when next you come. Childhood must be wide- BOITLLE TABLE VrlTH FOLDING ^ FLAPS. WINDSOR CASTLE, sprcad everywhere. A comment whose immediate outcome may be tr
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