Interior Design is a career that has interested me for years. Since I was a little girl, I have rearranged furniture and pictures in an effort to be creative and make our home look more beautiful. I seem to have always possessed a creative talent for design. Interior design in America with its rich European history and variety of modern trends provides both advantages and limitations as my chosen career. Eighteenth Century France was characterized by a classic approach to architecture. The structure of the buildings were palaces. The usage of statues was extremely popular also during this period in France. Paris, the city of lights, was known for its use of both white cement structures such as columns and interior wall sculptures. Robert de Cotte, Jacpues Jules Gabriel, and Ange - Jaques Gabriel were famous designers of the time (Ball 39). These men mark the progression in the “batiments” through the reign of Louis XV; the younger Gabriel bridges to Louis the XVI (39). From the latter part of the Sun King’s reign, there was little building in the royal domain: new work was confined to interiors. This allowed the prominent architects time and freedom to work with other customers. De Cotte and another crown architect, Gabriel Germain Boffrand were employed by the Euctor of Cologne, the Czar of Russia, and by Stanislas Leszczinska, father - in - law of the king and former ruler of Poland (39). The name “Rococo” is and appreciative expression of the first half of the Eighteenth Century (39). “It favors the Baroque characteristics of rhythmically moving shapes, of a centrally oriented asymmetrical balance, and of space interpenetration (39).” The term suggests an era of sparkling elegance, seduction, and charming grace but with all something restless and impermanent - “a brilliant arpeggio, a frothy effervescence with which a waning society whiled away its hours of decline (39)”. Although French architecture of
