The _Cabinet des Modes_ from 1786 to 1790 gives many examples of furniture and interior decorations that are excellent records of the taste of the last years of the Louis XVI. style. The volume for 1786 gives designs for a clock and candelabra; bed in the form of a pulpit, front and side view, _lit de repos_, or _causeuse_, arm-chairs “in the latest fashion,” _bergères_, _chaise à chapeau_ and _chaise à resaut_, “temple _flambeaux_ and _cassolettes_ for the decoration of a mantel-piece,” bed “_à la Turque_,” and decoration for a boudoir. [Illustration: PLATE XLVIII] A _lit à la Polonaise_, a decoration for a bedroom with alcove with columns, cabinet clock, sofa with three backs, or “_sofa pommier_,” large arm-chair for a drawing-room, two _voyeuses_ for a card room, and a chair appear in the second volumes. The third contains mantel-pieces, girandoles, clocks, a cylinder desk, a console, and the decoration for a _salon_. Another decoration for a _salon_ appears in the volume for 1789, also a clock, girandoles, a Chinese lantern, _pots pourris_, or perfume-burners, a sofa of three divisions, a _fauteuil à chapeau et à colonnes_, a hearth and a settee. The volume for 1790 leads directly into the Directoire style, as the plates for the “_lit à la fédération_,” “new arm-chairs of antique form,” “antique arm-chair,” “Etruscan chair,” candelabra, and “_salon nouveau_” plainly show. Most of these designs are by Charpentier. ----- Footnote 19: Copy of the Little Trianon built by Gustavus III., of Sweden, in his park at Haga near Stockholm. Footnote 20: A kind of dimity. THE ADAM PERIOD [Illustration: PLATE XLIX] [Illustration] THE ADAM PERIOD Reaction from the rococo style doubtless marched with the same gradual and certain steps in England as in France. The Louis XVI. style crossed the channel and brought with it all its bitter contempt for “rock and shell,” its passion for the straight line, and its love for mortuary urns and arabesque ornamentation. In English decorative art, this style is known as “Adam.” Although Robert and James Adam had great influence in creating and strengthening the “taste for the antique,” they were not the only ones who made war upon the rococo, Gothic and Chinese. One of these was George Richardson, who, like Adam, travelled in Italy. He published _A Book of Ceilings composed in the style of the Antique Grotesque_, in 1776; _A New Collection of Chimney-Pieces in the style of the Etruscan, Greek and Roman Architecture_, in 1781; and _A Series of Original Designs for Country Seats or Villas, containing Plans, Elevations, Sections of Principal Apartments, Ceilings, Chimney Pieces, Capitals of Columns, Ornaments for Friezes, and Other Interior Decorations in the Antique Style_, in 1795.