The decorative stuccoes described here are plaster artifacts that are a must-have in the decorative field, something that any art enthusiast or simply anyone who cares about the appearance of their home should consider. We are talking about paneling, the pinnacle of furniture in 17th- and 18th-century France.

The success of these seemingly simple wooden panels variously engraved and carved exploded in central Europe in the last centuries of the kingdom’s life before the revolution that would disrupt it. An era marked by a taste for beauty as evidenced by the palace of Versailles restored at that very time by a still young Louis XIV.
And it is precisely this exaggeratedly sumptuous mansion that has perhaps most enhanced this type of highly refined interior ornamentation. But Versailles represents only the culmination of the success of wood paneling, which could not be missing from any noble family’s residence.

In fact, its broad scope has made many of the French elites attached to it. From walls to doors, partitions to room dividers, wood paneling delighted architects and housewives who delighted in embellishing their walls in ever more original and whimsical ways, entrusting these elegantly inlaid wood panels with ever more enhancing functions. Even very often paintings were set into the paneling, which therefore framed the painting or bas-relief.
Of course, the use of these decorations extended far beyond the France of the ancien regime, and even our beautiful country known for its superfine artistic taste was able to recognize the beauty of these panels: reference is made to the so-called boiserie di testa, as it is called in art jargon, which divides the wall without mirroring and rounding above and below it, and originated in Italy as lambrino or lambrino cornice at the end of the 19th century.
For all these reasons, if you want to reintroduce an atmosphere of opulence and royalty inside your home, paneling may be just the thing for you.