Talk:Rococo furniture style

This entry isn't going to be very useful if merged with Rococo. Rococo isn't characterized by elaborate but light and graceful ornamentation, the nature of the ornamentation is what characterizes Rococo, which may also be ponderous and clunky. Not all Rococo furniture is excessively ornate: a Louis XV chair may have no ornament save a small flowerhead at the top of the rail and a little floret at each knee. Rococo is rarely mis-spelled Rococco. It was not originally used to describe the "grottos at Versailles". Rococo was confined to two dimensions only in the sense that drawings precede the finished product. The independent development of Chinoiserie preceded Rococo in engravings on silver and in ceramics. Whether any style has "transcended good taste, hence the critical aspects of the description" doesn't help a reader identify what's rococo about a piece of furniture. The Second Rococo, as Germans and Austrians call it, was actually a huge success: many pieces of 1860s English and French furniture sit in museum collections as 18th century.

Of the current entry, only the following statements are accurate and useful:

English rococo tended to be more restrained, for example Chippendale's designs for ribon backed chairs. The most successful exponent of English Rococo was probably Thomas Johnson a gifted carver and furniture designer working in London in the mid 1700s. --Wetman 07:49, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Then are you saying it should be deleted? --Whosyourjudas (talk) 20:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

(I really didn't want to go that far. --Wetman 01:17, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC))

We don't have to merge the whole of this article into Rococo. We can selectively put in what makes sense, then turn this into a redirect probably. Or delete this after the merge, given the strange capitalization. I'm actually going to move it now to correct that. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 04:14, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

move complete to Rococo furniture style from Rococo Furniture Style. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 04:16, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)