Rococo
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Sep 13, 2026
John M. KennedyNARRATOR
Twilight comes quickly during the Moscow winter, and already they've turned on the lights in the church where Markov's body lies in state, as befits a Russian nobleman.
John M. KennedyNARRATOR
The yellow light filters through the stained glass windows and spills onto the white snow outside in strange Rococo patterns.
John M. KennedyNARRATOR
Yes, an appropriate day for a funeral.
John M. KennedyNARRATOR
A different day entirely from that lovely spring morning that Peter Markov and I met again.
speaker_3NARRATOR
What men mistake for beauty in themselves is usually nothing save a certain hollow gaudiness, a revolting flashiness, the superficial splendor of a prancing animal.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The most lovely moving-picture actor considered in the light of genuine aesthetic values is no more than a piece of vulgarity, his likeness to be found not in the Ruffuzzi Gallery or among the harmonies of Brahms, but among the plush sofas, Rococo clocks, and hand-painted oil-paintings of a third-rate auction-room.
speaker_3NARRATOR
All women, save the least intelligent, penetrate this impostor with sharp eyes.
speaker_3NARRATOR
They know that the human body, except for a brief time in infancy, is not a beautiful thing, but a hideous thing.
Teresa WatkinsHOST
So what are we going to see in 2027? Well,
Katie DuBowGUEST
we call the design trend, let's go Rococo.
Katie DuBowGUEST
And it's this French inspired, over the top, Really kind of Louis XIV style, lots of gold, lots of embellishments, shells, urns, color, more texture, more personality, ruffled peonies, parrot tulips.
Katie DuBowGUEST
And with this, you being a designer, you know that you don't need to redo your whole yard.
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Katie DuBowGUEST
And blue is always a color that's used in spas to help people stay calm.
Katie DuBowGUEST
It's a relaxing color.
Teresa WatkinsHOST
And it's also the color of wallpaper and huge ballrooms in France for the Rococo era.
Teresa WatkinsHOST
The blue on the walls.
Will WulffHOST
Mm-hmm.
Bob WulffHOST
Uh, it's something that you would see in Rococo paintings.
Will WulffHOST
Okay.
Bob WulffHOST
And something that they used in like the Lord of the Rings like artwork, like, uh, uh, what's the guy? Like, he, he did Lord of the Rings, he did Star Wars posters.
MackenzieHOST
... at all.
MackenzieHOST
And this French, like, Rococo style that we see was Tony Masters being like, "We can do this and make this really stunning, but we can light it from the bottom.
MackenzieHOST
We can change it slightly." Um, and that's how you get that room.
MackenzieHOST
And there's not, like, a real rhyme or reason to it.
Tom WrightGUEST
But gee, it's smart.
Tom WrightGUEST
It has that anti-intellectual Australian curled lip quality and it also has moments of absolutely florid Rococo prose.
Tom WrightGUEST
Yeah, a really interesting book and, again, one that perhaps of a time that's gone.
Tom WrightGUEST
So, you know, some of our books we want to be endlessly contemporary.
Mandy HortonHOST
She was greatly influenced by his quiet, refined, and restrained style.
Mandy HortonHOST
The first surviving examples of her calligraphy work are designed in a delicate mock Rococo style that was popular in 1920s Germany.
Mandy HortonHOST
Elisabeth's first salaried position was with the Olstein Publishing House in Berlin, where she worked on the popular magazine Didama, the first of its kind and illustrated magazine catering to the interests of modern women.
Mandy HortonHOST
After the First World War, it was considered the best journal of its kind in the world market.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
And it's a variation of different fabrics, like polyester fabrics, more glossy fabrics.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
sequin fabrics and I mix them with like older tapestry fabrics that I gathered and collected over years and sometimes they are you know that they use for upholstery for in the you know for couches or cushions and others are tapestries on the wall like They produce in the 70s, like a lot of these Rococo imitation tapestries.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
And I've cut everything into very sort of swirly shapes.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
And it looks a bit like painting.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
So the work is kind of disorientating the viewer a bit.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
And also with all the shiny fabric and the excess of all the materials, this also is kind of disruptive.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
you know, disrupt the image that I use because I start with Rococo images or painting or images on paintings from the Rococo era.
Anne von FreyburgGUEST
And that's all, it's a whole concept and another layer of meaning in the work that I can discuss later.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
A satyr on the mantelpiece whispered obscene secrets into the ears of St. Cecilia.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
The argent limbs of Antinous brushed against the garments of Mona Lisa, and from a corner a little Rococo lady peered coquettishly at the grey image of an Egyptian sphinx.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
There was a picture of Napoleon facing the image of the crucified.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Above all, in a semi-darkness, artificially produced by heavy draperies, towered two busts.
R.C.HOST
Many authors in alchemical literature followed in the footsteps of earlier ones, granting Hermes Trismegistus a distinguished place in their works.
R.C.HOST
Editions of alchemical books in German showed him decked out in Rococo style and decor.
R.C.HOST
For example, Friedrich Rothschultz's Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum or Schroeder's Neue Alchemistische Bibliothek.
R.C.HOST
Oh, I lied, there's more German.
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