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Gustavian style -  interiors  were light and elegant interpretations of the Louis XVI style, with echoes of English, German and Dutch influences. Rooms were decorated with pilasters and columns; walls were applied with rich silk damasks or rectangular panels with painted designs framed in carved, gilded linear ornament and laurel festoons. Damask, usually crimson, blue or green, was used to upholster benches, sofas and chairs. Other rooms were paneled in wood, painted light-grey, blue or pale-green; the dominant feature was a columnar faience-tiled stove, decorated with sprigged floral patterns. Klismos-style chairs upholstered in silk were very popular, as were oval-backed chairs with straight, fluted legs, and bateau-shaped sofas were common. Rooms were embellished with long, giltwood-framed mirrors, crystal chandeliers, gilt torchs and Classical-style vases and urns of Swedish porphyry. Wooden floors were laid with Swedish carpets inspired by those of Savonnerie.

Remember-twenty percent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy percent have illusions.

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973)