After our crash course on Louis XIV-style chairs, you’ll be able to recognize one in the dark. Most of us associate Louis XIV-style with gilt and a sun motif. But while the Sun King was creating ...

Louis XIV’s death in 1715 heralded the end of the big wig craze. When King Louis XV came of age, he favored simpler hairstyles at his court. Portraits of the new king depict him with powdered ...

I wouldn’t ordinarily be drawn to this style, but my parents had a Louis XIV-style bedroom suite when I was a child in Hong Kong. Anyway, I like the way the piece becomes a work of art ...

September 1 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of King Louis XIV, France’s longest-reigning ... fueled a booming domestic economy. Spanish style was tight and rigid—both physically ...

Louis XIV. Relating a king to fashion seems odd – especially to the British, our monarchy being generally stodgy, a little podgy and far from the vagaries of style. But Louis le Grand ...