Empire Stylebook of Interior Design: All 72 Plates from the "Recueil De D+corations Int+rieures" with New English Text (Dover Books on Architecture)

Now for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition: the "bible" of First Empire style in interior decor, one of the most important and influential sourcebooks in the history of French design, reprinted from the rare 1812 edition, and essential reading for interior designers, architects, and architectural and social historians.