It is still a living interior design style. Antique furniture has been so called since the 1600s.

When visiting Baroque castles, we come across almost only carvings, bronze, copper fittings, furniture decorated with gilded colors, which were much more intended to advertise the social status of their owners than real objects of use. Those in France with more modest materials typically decorated their homes with versions of the same style of furniture with significantly fewer decorative elements than their contemporaries seeking to live in a royal way.

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