The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo Worlds collide in the Met’s magnificent ‘Inspiring Walt Disney’ exhibition January 6, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...

In the world of interiors, French design has long been synonymous with elegance, refinement, and a certain je ne sais quoi.

The rococo style fell out of favor before the French Revolution due to diatribes such as Diderot’s denouncement of the movement’s “falseness.” Boucher was singled out by Diderot, though he did admit ...

The San Francisco Early Music Society's 2017-18 concert season continues the weekend of March 2 with three concerts by Ohio-based LES DELICES in a program of daring, experimental works from the ...

Galleries Market Star Painter Flora Yukhnovich, Known for Her Contemporary Take on French Rococo, Joins Mega Gallery Hauser and Wirth. The artist graduated art school in 2017, and was making seven ...

What explains the lasting wonderment of French rococo, the theatrically frivolous, flauntingly costly mode in art, ceramics, furniture, décor, and fashion that flourished in mid-eighteenth ...

Glossary of Woods Used in French Furniture from the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection (pp. viii-ix) Contributors (pp. x-x) Introduction: Acquisitions History of the Rococo Ébénisterie Collection (pp.

Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings. By The New Yorker. September 17, 2009. Before the revolution, the party. The show opens with the artists of the ancien régime.

Marie Antoinette is an iconic, larger-than-life historical figure who has long embodied the French cultural and social milieu pre-Revolution. I am equally amused, disturbed, and fascinated by the ...

PARIS — Over the years, the designer Andrew Gn has built up his own fashion universe of opulence and elegance that he inhabits so easily. This season, his inspiration came directly from his own ...