Style Empire: Interior Decorations, Furniture, Etc., Etc. Executed after Designs by Ch. Percier and P. F. L. Fontaine
Style Empire is a late nineteenth-century pattern book of French Empire furniture and interior decoration, reproducing designs by the architects Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine, issued in 1895 for craftsmen and designers. The plates are fine line engravings of tables, tripods, vases, chairs and ornamental friezes, with classical motifs such as winged figures, griffins, laurel wreaths and medallions. A designer could draw on their tightly repeated borders, symmetrical frames and neoclassical vessel forms for ornament or period-styled layouts.
