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

Name: Rococo Interior Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris
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ISBN: 9780300045826

ISBN-10: 0300045824

ISBN-13: 9780300045826

Edition: 1996

Authors: Katie Scott

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This book offers a comprehensive account of the forms and functions of interior decoration in Parisian domestic architecture during the first half of the 18th century, the period generally known as the rococo.

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/24/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.092
Language: English

List of Abbreviations, Currency and Measures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Anatomy of a Noble House	p. 1
Spaces of Production
The Production of Materials	p. 13
The Organisation of Practice	p. 45
The Co-ordination of Work	p. 61
Theatres of Distinction
The Languages of Estates and the Logic of Decoration	p. 81
A World of Distinctions	p. 101
Fields of Contest
'The Nursery of Kings': Versailles and its Satellites	p. 121
Earthly Paradise on the Left Bank	p. 147
Paris - Versailles: The Eclipse of the Heroic Decorative Mode	p. 177
Counterfeit Culture on the Right Bank	p. 213
The Rococo Exposed	p. 241
Notes	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 330
Photograph Sources and Credits	p. 342
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