Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes
Pierre Le Muet's Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes, a 1725 Paris architectural treatise published by Claude Jombert and the Barbou brothers for builders and private clients of every rank. Its plates pair elevations of town houses with floor plans drawn in fine black line on cream paper, with room labels and scale bars in French. A designer can take from them a clear model of early eighteenth-century domestic layout, with stair placement, symmetrical rooms, and plan-and-elevation sheet composition.
