An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Louis XI\ . DANIEL MAROT. 139Second Half 171b Century. on each side, with afixed piece of materialfrom the canopy goingover the head and footof the bed. Lit Tournant, seeNo. 2, page 131. Read-ers will remember thatthe beds in the oldentime were enclosed withcurtains all round, butother designs for bedsof a more open char-acter were coming intofashion; for example,Lit dAnge, describe
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Louis XI\ . DANIEL MAROT. 139Second Half 171b Century. on each side, with afixed piece of materialfrom the canopy goingover the head and footof the bed. Lit Tournant, seeNo. 2, page 131. Read-ers will remember thatthe beds in the oldentime were enclosed withcurtains all round, butother designs for bedsof a more open char-acter were coming intofashion; for example,Lit dAnge, describedon page 135. In thesebeds people foundthemselves liable to becaught unawares. Thisis a French idea, but,at the same time, itmust be rememberedthe bedroom in thosedays in France was notstrictly confined tosleeping purposes, butwas used as a sittingroom as well. To get over this difficulty, and yet show the beautiful design of the bedstead, the valances, the chantournes, etc., etc.,an iron curtain rod round the top of the bedstead was adopted, along which it was possible to draw very lightsilk curtains from each side, and yet in the day, when the bed, as it were, was on show the curtains could be drawn back
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