Styles in interior design
porcelain present a unified ensemble. The Rococo palette is softer and paler than the rich primary
colors and dark tonalities favored in Baroque tastes.
A few anti-architectural hints rapidly evolved into full-blown Rococo at the end of the 1720s and
began to affect interiors and decorative arts throughout Europe. The richest forms of German
Rococo are in Catholic Germany (illustration, above).
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