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Article: Caution: curves ahead.(ARTS & CULTURE)(Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- April 1, 2008
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Design lovers have craved Rococo--the French style known for its undulating curves, asymmetries, lifelike depictions of flora and fauna, and improbable cantilevers--every few decades since its introduction in the early 1700s. "This kind of design, this originality and flight of fantasy, has kept coming into fashion after every period that has had rules and confines in place, whether it was classicism, the straitlaced Victorian revivals or modernism, with its rigorous right angles," says Sarah D. Coffin, head of product design and decorative arts at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. In its new survey "Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008" (through ...
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