This drawing shows a complete bedroom including furniture, draperies and carpet, ready to install instantly, and may be a pattern book illustration from a shop specialising in the furnishing of rented houses. Shops of this kind, unique to Paris, rented out the entire equipment for a household by the quarter or half-year, and boasted that a house could be made ready from top to bottom in forty-eight hours. The luxury finish of this room is cleverly achieved with swagged and pleated drapery, and a boldly-patterned wallpaper