{"product_id":"the-french-interior-in-the-18th-century","title":"The French Interior in the 18th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in French decorative arts and interior decoration  and its crowning achievement was the creation of the domestic interior. Using the craftsmen and skills originally brought into France from Italy and the Low Countries to serve the Sun King  French aristocrats and financiers created in their Paris Hotels and country chateaux interiors of an unprecedented elegance and sophistication. The same can be said of the works of art that completed these rooms - furniture decorated with marquetry or lacquer  gilt-bronzes  silver  the finest porcelain  of which none was finer than Sevres  tapestries and carpets from the Savonnerie  the Gobelins  Beauvais and Aubusson  and beautiful silks and upholstery. This book discusses in detail the creation and contents of many such interiors  including some that have never been photographed before. Using contemporary inventories  letters  and journals  it brings to life the tastes and preoccupations of their creators - the Royal family  the aristocracy  the fashionable tourists  and the nouveaux riches  the dealers and craftsmen who worked for them  the artists  designers  and architects  both in their public lives and more private moments. In addition it explores the wider context of the different styles of decoration  the effect upon them of changes in etiquette and social behavior  and the effect they had in turn upon the function and arrangement of rooms within the French interior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946504384565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0525934448","price":226.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780525934448.jpg?v=1769953251","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-french-interior-in-the-18th-century","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}