The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France

Iris Moon is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, architecture, and the decorative arts.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Finding Revolutionary Architecture in the Decorative Arts






Visionary Friendship at the End of the Ancien Régime
Clean Sheets and Water Magic

Architects in Training

Roman Fever

Solo Missions

An Etruscan Friendship




Propulsion and Residue: Constructing the Revolutionary Interior
Rome à Rebours

Staging Antiquity and Austerity

Revolutionary Rearrangements

Seek, Record, Destroy

The Eternal Return of Luxury




The Recueil de décorations intérieures: Furnishing a New Order
Paper Studios

Furnishing Techniques

Strategies of Redaction

Consuming Desires

Writing Against Fashion

Between the Lines

Empire Styles




The Platinum Cabinet: Luxury in Times of Uncertainty
Pastoral Pastimes

Incorruptible Precision

Fast Times in Consulate Paris

Haunting Season




Tent and Throne: Architecture in a State of Emergency

Après Coup

Fantasies of the Ideal Villa

A Permanent Work in Progress

Little Pleasures

The Moving Bivouac

Political Theology

Divorcing the Past

Coda: Revolutionary Atonement