1967 French Furniture and Interior Decoration of the 18th Century

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First English Edition. 

In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated with twenty four colour plates as well as various full-page and in-text illustrations from a variety of different sources.

This is an informative work on the 'study of French furniture', written by Pierre Verlet. Using various accounts, memoirs, and domestic records, the author records and analyses the works of designers from the eighteenth century, as well as the high-class societies that were interested in them. 

Contents include 'The Growth of Luxury', 'Traditionalists and Innovators', 'Paris and the Provinces', and 'Distribution and Decoration of Apartments'. 

Pierre Verlet (1908-1987) was a French museum curator and art historian. Verlet served as the chief curator at the Louvre Museum, and was also one of the initiators of the refurnishing of the Palace of Versailles. 

Collated, complete.