and Fontaine shaped the room as a tent in sixteen pieces, with gilt pilasters flanking its panels.
Red-brown fabric, which I remember, possibly
erroneously, as velvet, is swagged on the walls
from just below the golden crown molding down
to the floor, gathered at the upper left and upper
right, creating deep large folds.
The bed fabrics are white and the innermost one,
a printed cotton, falls from a domed crown garnished with the emblematic Napoleonic eagle,
the entire ensemble evoking not only Rome but
empires to the east. The golden bed itself, with
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