The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in french decorative arts and interior decoration this book discusses in detail the creation and contents of the interiors of french aristocrats and financiers including some that have never been photographed before. The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in french decorative arts and interior decoration this book discusses in detail the creation and contents of the interiors of french aristocrats and financiers including some that have never been photographed before. The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in french decorative arts and its crowning achievement was the creation and decoration of the domestic interior styles such as the regency rococo neoclassical revival and style etrusque transformed the appearance of the great houses of france and were widely copied . The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in french decorative arts and interior decoration this book discusses in detail the creation and contents of the interiors of french aristocrats and financiers including some that have never been photographed before