Classic StylePhotographs and descriptive text celebrate classic decorating styles in the homes of Europe and North America, including neo-classical, American empire, English Regency, Greek revival, twentieth-century modern, and postmodern design styles. |
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19th-century Adam style American Ancient Greek Andrea Palladio anthemia architect artifacts Baroque bedroom Biedermeier bronze built bust carved ceiling chairs Château Classical architecture Classical Greek Classical interiors Classical style Classical-style Coade stone color scheme columns console table cornice decoration designed by Yves dining room Directoire display doors early 19th early 19th-century egg-and-dart embellished Empire-style England English Regency entrance hall Etruscan fabric fashionable faux marble festoons fireplace fixtures and fittings floor frame France Frédéric Méchiche's French Empire frieze furnishings furniture gilded Greco-Roman Greek and Roman Greek Revival inspired Italian late 18th late 18th-century Left living room London Louis XVI mahogany Michael Graves mid-18th century mirror moldings motifs and imagery Neoclassical architecture Neoclassical interiors Neoclassicism notably painted pair Palladian panels pattern pediment pilasters plaster popular Regency style Renaissance Right Rococo rosettes scrolling foliage staircase trompe l'oeil typical urns vases vocabulary of ornament wall wallpaper York apartment Yves Gastou