Decorative Arts gather all the disciplines which have the role to embellish the daily newspaper, to create an aesthetic atmosphere in which to live and feel well. Tablewares, furniture, decorative pieces, fabrics manufactured in series, largely are diffused and express the taste of the company at one time.
The effects of mode to adapt and reflect the esthetics of the company, to like decorative Arts the contemporaries follow. They brew at the same time the search for “beautiful” validated collectively and the will to appear - to be with the last style and to be able to show it with the others or to belong at a community.
If time is gone up, decorative Arts are initially closely related to the manifestation of the royal power.
Each king generated his own style and thus tried to leave his print over his period. Styles Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI followed one another, modifying the shapes, materials, colors and techniques of the objects of the daily newspaper.
The style Louis XIV rigid and imposing was fond of the straight lines and the symmetry of the curves, the style Louis XV uses the reversed curves and the asymmetry of the baroque then the Louis XVI returns to the straight lines but while privileging elegance and refinement.
To follow the decorative fashion was then sign of allegiance and fidelity to the new sovereign. In resulted a social cohesion but also a domino effect on the economy and the cultural radiation from the nation.
The Revolution is also confined of its own style: the Directory. Then it is the style Worsens and Napoleon feeds by his orders great manufactures which play a fundamental role in the raising of the French economy. During the 19th century, the bond between policy and decorative art grow blurred more and more with the profit of the expression of the private sensitivities. The decorative styles are structured then more by generational segments, the taste evolving with the liking of the experiments and of felt company.
The appearance of a trend within decorative arts remains a mysterious phenomenon. How to know what will like, which will cause the adhesion of the purchasers? Much rests on the personalities of the launchers of mode whose charisma or the social position calls admiration and imitation. Thus under the Revolution, Theresa Cabarus launched the fashion of clothing and furniture to Greek.
But certain fashions are sometimes due to mere chances. The taste of draperies of muslin which equip the walls under the Empire is due to an inspiration of Joséphine de Beauharnais. The part where it was to accommodate her husband during one of his campaigns had naked and ugly walls. It had the inspiration of covering them with the white muslin designed to make make its dresses, only element which it had at disposal, as misery hiding place. A fashion was launched.
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