Rooms lined with mirrors became popular, in some cases even the ceiling being made of glass.
Console tables, which were frequently gilt, were often placed under the large wall mirrors.
Hanging bands of material were employed to drape the heads of windows and the tops of bedsteads. Beds were important pieces of furniture, and had elaborately carved head and foot boards. The overhanging Tester was also ornamented, and besides the valances already mentioned, was surmounted by groups of plumes.
No. 112. Pantheon, Paris. Soufflet. Louis XV.
Louis XV
Little advance was made in architecture during the reign of Louis XV, to which period belongs the Pantheon at Paris, originally the Church of St. Geneviéve, the work of Soufflet, born in 1713.
Régence
The style passed through two stages. The earlier, known as the Régence—the principal exponents of which were Charles Cressent, Gilles Marie Oppenord, and Nicholas Pineau—is distinguished by a certain reserve and moderation which were entirely abandoned in the later Rococo period.