Le Mobilier Francais; Napoleon III Annees 1880 by Odile Nouvel-Kammerer - 1996

Paris, France: Editions Massin, 1996 Editions Massin, Paris, France. 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. In French. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Red cloth boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine and front board in white borders. 93 pp 4to. French Period Furniture. This book is about placing furniture in the era and setting for which it was designed in this case The Second Empire style , also known as Napoleon III style , is a style born in France under the Second Empire , under the leadership of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. The Second Empire style, conceived with a taste for luxury and ostentation, favors sumptuousness and polychromy. There is an abundance of ornamentations often in relief and very elaborate. Studying its mode of manufacture, influences from elsewhere, the slow evolution of forms and decorations, here is the object of the furniture book Napoleon III - 1880s. A clean pristine copy.