E-22: French Provincial Bedroom of the Louis XV Period, 18th Century

Art Institute of Chicago

E-22: French Provincial Bedroom of the Louis XV Period, 18th Century

Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Date
c. 1937
Medium
Miniature room, mixed media
Culture
United States
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

"This bedroom of a country house in Normandy represents the provincial interpretation of the style of Louis XV," wrote Mrs. Thorne. She intended this interior to show the way in which a growing middle class outside of Paris adapted some of the innovations in comfort and style characteristic of Louis XV's reign for their relatively modest homes. A striving for beauty is demonstrated in the richly carved armoire against the left wall and in the sprigged wallpaper supplementing the paneling of the back wall.

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