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The French rococo revival along the Mississippi River.(Cover Story)
In his influential Architecture of Country Houses (1850), Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) noted:
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There is, at the present moment, almost a mania in the cities for expensive French furniture and decorations.... Modern French furniture, and especially that in the style of Louis Quatorze, stands much higher in general estimation in this country than in any other. (1)
Variously called Louis Quatorze, modern French, and antique French, the style is known today as rococo revival. It represents an adaptation of the fluid naturalistic designs that decorated objects during the reigns of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) and especially ...
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