Les styles
Les styles is an 1897 Paris architecture and interior decoration book published by Delagrave, written by Henry Havard with illustrations by Henri Toussaint and A. Hotin, aimed at students and designers of period styles. Its plates are line engravings of architectural details: a carved capital with grotesque heads, a classical door surround with rococo cartouche and scrolled pilasters, a long gallery interior viewed in perspective, and a carved wooden panel with interlaced foliage. A designer could draw on the carved ornament, the cartouches and scrolls, and the strong perspective of the gallery view.
