A French nobleman of distinquished taste, has recently had his drawing-room fitted up and furnished in the following style.

The apartment is hung with grey watered paper, with an amaranth bordering, the tints corresponding with those of the silk which covers the chairs and divans. The latter are low, having on each side circular montans of pallissander, finished at the turn by ivory balls. Double cushions, bound with amaranth coloured silk galons. Gondola chairs of pallissander, the cushions covered like the divans, with grey watered silk, ornamented with amaranth coloured silk tassels, which hang over the legs. The arm-chairs are also of the gondola form, and the circular arms are terminated, like the montans of the divans, by ivory balls. Double window curtains, one of white worked muslin, and the other of grey watered silk, trimmed with amaranth coloured galons and tassels. They are hung in large double plaits, each plait being fastened by a palouette of gilt bronze three inches long. The rings, which are very large, are of inwrought and dead gilding, and run on a corresponding gilt rod. The embrasses are also dead gilt. Small curtains, of worked muslin, run upon brass rods. In the middle of the room stands a tea-table of pallissander wood, ornamented with rich inlaying. The console is of pallissander with a slab of white marble, and feet of ivory balls.

The chimney ornaments are perhaps in too heavy a style for so gay an apartment. They consist of a bronze time piece, surmounted by a bust of Cromwell, modelled after La Roche’s portrait, and two large bronze candelabra, imitated from those discovered at Herculaneum.

From the ceiling is suspended an antique lamp with five burners.

On the console, between two cane lamps, stands an enormous Malaquita cup mounted in gilt bronze.
On the tea-table, there is a basket of cedar wood, beautifully carved in open work. It serves as a jardiniere for pots of natural flowers. Above the marble chimney-piece, on each side of the mirror, are fixed candelabra of gilt bronze, each furnished with three branches for holding wax lights.

From: The Court Journal or Gazette of the Fashionable World. April 13, 1833. Nr. 207.