Empire style

E:The creators of the Empire style were... French architects Charles Percier and Pierre François Louis Fontaine. They designed the furniture and decor of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They issued the "Palais maisons et autres edifices de Rome moderne" (1802, Paris) and "Residences des souverains" (1833, Paris) in which it concluded assumptions style. Empire was modeled on the architectural elements of Roman, Greek and Egyptian. For the style it was characteristic of symmetry, monumentality…

Fashion Plate, 'Half Dress' for 'The Repository of Arts', Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, November 1, 1810, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Empire Style furniture. Wing chair, high end dining chair, accent chair.

one of the bed-room

Conservators from the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg and Amalienborg worked on the task of re-creating the colours of the interiors in Frederik VIII's

Today our Regency time travels for fashion will take us to the year 1824 and oh what an assortment of fashions we have for this year. The trends continue with the lowering and snugger form-fitting bodice and fuller skirt bottoms as we have seen for the past few years. Then is October we see see two mourning fashions; however this time it is not due to a death in the British Royal Family but for the French King Louise XVIII. I found it interesting that the British Court was ordered to go into…

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Luxury lifestyle in Paris, France. More details about this mansion here.

...au petit matin, avant l'invasion par les touristes.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte. Throughout history, evolution within a society has been…