Vertiginous
Nicholas Penny, 12 December 1996
Grands Décors français 1650-1800
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,2 87844 023 4 Show More
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,
Chardin
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,0 500 09259 1 Show More
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,
“... banishment of straight lines and symmetry was much applauded). The most striking example of all is Charles Cressent, whom Scott does not mention at all, the daring novelties and extraordinary beauties of whose furniture and clockcases have been plausibly credited to the fact that the patronage of the Regent enabled him to ignore the guild regulations that kept ... ”