In any case, said the designer Stephen Sills, "that kind of French decoration is just not applicable for today's living.
Pierre Lescot began his inner courtyard facade in 1546, adapting the Renaissance rhythms and orders he had observed in Italy and adding purely French decoration to the classical motifs.
The Metropolitan Museum bought seven important pieces from the Art Deco-oriented show, including a cabinet by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, then the high priest of French decoration.
Mr. Lagerfeld admitted that he had turned down earlier offers of a French decoration during his long career in France, but the promise of the highest officer grade -- commander -- won him over.
In France, too, the stimulus for the production of knotted carpets may have come from the East; but the designs of the rugs were inspired by contemporary French decoration rather than Oriental carpet design.
Yet Wolinski, for all his provocations, was a life-affirming and broadly cultured bon vivant, who became something of an institution; in 2005, he was awarded the Légion d' Honneur, the highest French decoration.
Yet Wolinski, for all his provocations, was a life-affirming and broadly cultured bon vivant_,_ who became something of an institution; in 2005, he was awarded the Légion d' Honneur, the highest French decoration.
Sometimes this is done deliberately, as in a Gothic Revival prie-dieu from mid-19th-century Vienna or a noted late-17th-century pedestal clock in the Met's Wrightsman galleries for French decorative arts, whose decorations represent a fairly mind-boggling synthesis of Egyptian sphinxes, Grecian urns and Renaissance grotesques.
Décor bois, (French: "wood decoration"), in decorative arts, trompe l'oeil decoration of porcelain and faience to simulate grained and knotted wood with the likeness of an engraving "nailed" to it.
Wounded twice he was decorated by both the US and French Governments Decorations included the Bronze Star.
