The original methodology applied to the study of the decorative arts and the new sources examined make this volume a fundamental arrival point in our knowledge of one of the most important periods in the history of Italian furniture.
[Empire furniture in Italy / Interior furnishings and decorations from 1800 to 1843] This publication, the first of a series on furniture styles, illustrates the particular, utterly original take on the Empire style in Italy during the period of French rule of the Restoration, until 1840 when this style was gradually overshadowed by fashions inspired by historical revivals.
The volume, after an in-depth introduction, is organized in profiles accompanied by many illustrated comparisons on the production of the decorative arts in the many geographical areas of the Italian peninsula at the time: the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, Rome, the Granduchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Lucca, the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, the Papal Legations and the Duchies of Parma e Modena, the Kingdom of Sardinia. The result is a very useful working tool for scholars and furniture lovers, also thanks to a fine selection of illustrations.