The Arcades Project - Operi

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[The Interior, The Trace]
"In 1830, Romanticism was gaining the upper hand in literature. It now invaded
architecture and placarded house faades with a fantastic gothicism, one all too
often made of pasteboard. It imposed itself 011 furniture making. 'All of a sudden,'
says a reporter on the exhibition of' 1834" 'there is boundless enthusiasm for
strangely shaped furniture. From old chateaux, from furniture warehouses and
junk shops, it has been dragged out to embellish the salons, which in every other
respect are modern . . . . ' Feeling inspired, furniture manufacturers have been
prodigal with their 'ogives and machicolations.' You see beds and armoires bristling
with battlements, like thirteenth-century citadels." E. I..Jcvasseur,