Salon de la Pompadour

Every surface, an embellishment.

par la grâce du métier

A digital pattern book for the heirs of rocaille — gilt cartouches, asymmetric C-scrolls, and pastel paneling, drawn the way a guild would have drawn them, had they kept a press in the salon.

I. Pattern Book II. Ornament Folio III. Cartouche Series

Folio · Plate the First

Petit Salon

Cream eggshell paneling laid against gilt-bronze hairlines; one cartouche per virtue, never two alike.

Or moulu Rose tendre Céladon

XII

Cartouches

none symmetric — that is the rule

M·DCC

Drawn at Versailles

in the salon of Mme de la Treille