Explore the bold return of Rococo in art and pop culture, where decadent beauty meets modern feminist subversion.

English farmhouse has been the reigning queen of interior trends. We swapped subway tile for zellige, stainless steel for copper and embraced the fantasy of rural domesticity—gingham curtains, ...

Rococo didn’t appear out of nowhere. It rose in the wake of Baroque absolutism—that is, the era when Louis XIV ruled France with total, unquestioned power. Everything from politics to palace ...