Daniel Marot, Œuvres (1703; enlarged 1712) | The Textbook of Architecture

The engraved designs of the Huguenot designer who worked for William III in Holland and England: whole rooms drawn with their beds, chairs, tables, glasses, hangings and chimneypieces made together, the state bed at the head of its apartment, and the table, glass and pair of candlestands set between the windows.

Daniel Marot (1661–1752) left France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and entered the service of William of Orange, for whom he designed interiors at Het Loo and, after 1689, at Hampton Court. His plates, issued singly and gathered as his Œuvres, carried the court style of Louis XIV to Holland and England.

The plates show the room as one design: the bed with its tester, curtains and valances, the chairs and stools covered in the same stuff, the wall hangings and the chimneypiece with its tiers of china. They are the clearest record of the state bed and of the formal furnishing of a room of parade.

Rules drawn from Œuvres

The furniture made with the room

Design the furniture of a principal room with the room: the chairs, settees and stools covered in the stuff of the walls or the bed, the tables and glasses drawn to the architecture of the piers and the chimneypiece, so that the room and its furniture are of one manner and one date.

The state bed

At the end of the apartment of state, in the bedchamber of state, set the state bed: the richest piece in the house, its tester high under the ceiling, its curtains, valances and headcloth of the richest stuff, with the chairs and stools of the room covered to match; it is a bed of honour more than of sleep.