Styles in interior design
Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of
houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was
attempted in Great Britain.
Inaugurated in some rooms in Versailles, it unfolds its magnificence in several Parisian buildings
(especially the Hôtel Soubise). In Germany, French and German artists (Cuvilliés, Neumann,
Knobelsdorff, etc.) effected the dignified equipment of the Amalienburg near Munich, and the
castles of Würzburg, Potsdam, Charlottenburg, Brühl, Bruchsal, Solitude (Stuttgart), and
Schönbrunn.
In Great Britain, one of Hogarth's set of paintings forming a melodramatic morality tale titled
Marriage à la Mode, engraved in 1745, shows the parade rooms of a stylish London house, in
which the only rococo is in plasterwork of the salon's ceiling. Palladian architecture is in control.
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