Soft furnishing elements

Furniture

Baroque decoration style furniture is dignified, grand, extravagant and grand, but not overly decorated, nor is the craftsmanship flawless. His decorative motifs were dominated by foliage clusters and ranunculus leaves, while the details were laid out in a symmetrical and balanced manner, a graphic that was most popular on small round and rectangular tables, as well as on wall-to-wall pedestal tables.

The intricate shapes of bedspreads and curtains on the bedding are mainly to create a grand visual effect. Long sofas were gilded, painted and lacquered. Chests of drawers and closets are full of carving and paneling, often with sinuous fronts, carved legs and side panels, and inlaid surfaces. Furniture is often decorated with oval motifs, heart-shaped rows, shells and decorative lines.

The furniture is heavily inlaid and gilded with bronze, and the chairs are upholstered in brocade, brocade, brocade, silk, satin, and velvet, with shimmering crimson, pink, gold, and blue surfaces contrasting with the dark wood color. Chair size is usually exaggerated, and the body carved symmetrical shape and dark color. French Baroque chairs were seen as sculptures to be admired rather than rested on, and as symbols of wealth.

The French Baroque decoration style is expressed through sofas and chairs with a variety of cherubs, symbols, and intricate motifs, etc. Decorative details cover the entire piece of furniture, including twisted columns and soaring lines. Sofas and chairs have curved camelback shapes and rounded decorative effects that make them look more comfortable and romantic, and emphasize the status and taste of their users.

Lighting

French Baroque chandeliers are often made of pewter or brass, with serpentine rods and colorless crystals. Another more common type of chandelier used gilded wood carvings for its exaggerated size. Wall sconces, which symbolized luxury during the Baroque period, were often mounted on brass platters with embossed convex surfaces, and a mirror was added to the back of the sconce for added reflection.

Window Treatments

The French Baroque period saw significant developments in the art of hanging, which included draperies, curtains, decorative draperies and accessories. Windows were often decorated with intricately carved wooden curtain boxes at the top of the window, and drapery styles consisted of drapery with pendants and tails.

Window treatments in the Baroque decoration style are basically made of velvet and brocade. Curtains and fabrics were usually decorated with embellishments and beads, and were made more opulent with draperies, tassels, ribbons and cords. The application of taffeta or silk curtains made of loose style, exquisite.

Baroque period popular Chinese curtains and Italian curtains, Chinese curtains emphasize the structure, fabric and decoration, while the Italian curtains light, light, is a very decorative muslin curtain.

Bed Decorations and Cushions

Traditional Baroque four-poster beds are usually adorned with incredibly ornate velvet or brocade valances, bedspreads and curtains. In the case of flat beds, the headboards and footboards are carved and embossed in exaggerated sizes, full of S-shaped curves, and decorated with gilding, gold leaf, or rubbed with dark brown varnish. Bedding in order to show the luxury, dignity and grandeur, fabrics are often used velvet and brocade, the color to strong contrasting colors, such as purple and ochre, indigo and gold. Bedding color and curtains and other fabric color should be unified.

The fabrics of the cushions are also made of velvet and brocade, their corners are often decorated with spangles and their surfaces are dominated by damask floral motifs. There are also silk cushions, the surface of which is embroidered with a damask pattern, the edge is not trimmed.

Wall Decoration

The complete French Baroque style is completed by tapestries and paintings in the Baroque decoration style. Paintings should be in intricately carved and gilded frames, with paintings by painters such as Boulogne, Poussin, Lorrain and Tours. Mirror frames with large, symmetrical, intricately carved borders and gilded or gold leafed borders were also essential wall decorations in the Baroque style and were usually hung above the mantelpiece or on the wall table at the end of the aisle.

Tapestries were often used to decorate important rooms, such as living rooms. Tapestries with classic and military themes are the signature weave of Baroque Deco tapestries. Lyon velvet is also one of the main fabrics used in the Baroque Deco style. Gobelin brocade and Lyon velvet are often used as fabrics for chair and sofa covers in Baroque Deco furniture.

Table decorations and floral arrangements

Table ornaments should not be allowed to overstuff him, and only use those that belong only to the noble class, such as three-legged candlesticks with gold glitter. In order to make the candlesticks look more grandiose, they are often made of wood carved and then gilded or gold leafed on the surface. In addition, table tops were often decorated with half- or full-length marble statues, often of Louis XIV. Imitation of Chinese celadon blue and white tones as the characteristics of the Dutch Delft pottery, is one of the popular accessories in the Baroque period, from the Oriental lacquer and porcelain vases are very popular in the Baroque period accessories.

Baroque florals are commonly found in the graphics of paintings and tapestries. Traditional Baroque decorative floral arrangements were as elaborate as those created for oil paintings. Commonly used flowers include; silver lilies, carnations, lilacs, alstroemeria and tulips. Baroque decoration style of interior decoration only in the important parts of the arrangement of floral art, the material of the flower to bronze, ceramics and marble-based, symmetrical shape, exaggerated, solemn and majestic, with two ears similar to the shape of the French wine glass is the most common. Its surface is decorated with a large number of reliefs and paintings, and often in the rim, base and handles and other important parts of the gold or silver plating.

Dining accessories

Baroque decoration style tablecloths and table runners are usually made of velvet and brocade, pure white napkins and placemats are often hand-embroidered with scrolling patterns in gold, and only such magnificent weaving can set off the table on the delicate China, crystal cups and silverware. A flat shaped silver or China flower arrangement is often placed in the center of the table, but does not fill the table to the brim.

The table setting is more formal, with napkins rolled into egg cartons and placed in silver napkin rings, and then placed on top of the dinner plates. On top of the plate is usually a soup plate, with a lettuce fork, meat fork, or fish fork to the left, a beef or fish knife to the right (with the blade facing inward), and a soup ladle. On the top left of the plate are the dessert spoons and cheese knives, and on the top right are the red and white wine glasses. Wine glasses are usually made of silver or crystal, and some are even inlaid with gemstones to emphasize the owner’s noble status. Ivory glazed porcelain tableware stately, noble, its surface has a complex relief, but not painted. Knives and forks are usually made of sterling silver or stainless steel, especially the handle part of the knife and fork, intricate and ornate carvings.

Carpet

To add warmth to a room and soften the décor, Baroque interiors are often covered with rugs close to the size of the room, and small Persian rugs at the base of important pieces of furniture and underneath portraits of the owner.