Styles in interior design
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.
Here, on the Kentian mantel, the crowd of Chinese vases and mandarins are satirically rendered
as hideous little monstrosities, and the Rococo wall clock is a jumble of leafy branches.
In general, Rococo is an entirely interior style, because the wealthy and aristocratic moved back
to Paris from Versailles. Paris was already built up and so rather than engaging in major
architectural additions, they simply renovated the interiors of the existing buildings.
Gothic art