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The Term "rococo" occurs from French « rocaille », designating the decorative motive of the refined form reminding sea bowls. Style of rococo has appeared in the middle of 18 centuries and it is considered a late stage of baroque. However, this easy, playful and elegant style differs from grandiose and grandiose baroque. Rococo often reproach with recklessness, however, behind its external playfulness refinement, excellent art taste and perfection of forms disappears. It is possible to allocate following characteristic features of rococo:
- the Asymmetric composition, unlike classical style and baroque.
- For windows, doorways, mirrors and decorative panels the roundish form is often used. For expansion and visual change of space of small rooms in rococo huge mirrors are used, windows usually settle down in one plane with a wall, on them 2-3 layers of curtains are hung up.
- Most often there are gentle, pastel colours of pearl scale, shades lilac, blue, silver, nacreous.
- Walls become covered by silk and cotton fabrics or wall-paper. Usually walls are divided into 2 areas: top – monotonous, and bottom it is decorated by wall-paper with an ornament.
- the Monotonous ceiling is decorated by the plaster stucco moulding covered with gilding.
- the Floor becomes covered by a tile or a parquet. A plinth become straight lines or with the bent profile, they can be any height.
- As finishing materials valuable kinds of a tree, bronze, gold, silver are usually used.
- the Furniture settles down along walls. Usually it small, graceful and exclusively convenient, executed on the basis of the direct or bent lines.
- At an interior ornament there are thin carved frameworks, intricate interlacings, the masks representing heads of cupids, and also the basic motive of rococo – sea bowls.
- For rococo bronze chandeliers with crystal suspension brackets, busts, porcelain figurines and caskets, vases, hours, numerous mirrors and magnificent draperies are characteristic.
- the Ware should be easy and graceful, made of glass or the porcelain, the painted and decorated furnish from gold or silver. Rococo well approaches for small and average premises. This style is ideal for women as reminds boudoirs.