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wrote of him, "Nothing was done, in whatever genre that it might have been, unless it were in his manner, or where he had given designs for it." Through his engravings and those of his son, his style was highly influential beyond the court and Paris, notably in the Low
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Berain was commissioned to compose and supervise the whole of the exterior decoration of the king's ships. His first designs for royal interiors date from the years 1682–1684.
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His numerous designs were for the most part engraved under his own supervision; a collection of them was published in Paris in 1711 by his son-in-law,
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He was inventive and industrious, and, beginning with interiors at the Hôtel de Mailly (1687–88) assimilated and adapted
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where all the designs originated for court spectacle, from fêtes to funerals, and many designs for furnishings not covered by the
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in Paris as well as at the royal residences. After Lully's death in 1687, he created designs for the earliest
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and scenery, and until 1707 he was in charge of staging all lyric works produced at the
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