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Interior designers and architects throughout time have continuously studied users within a space to design to best fit their needs and wants. King of France, Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles can be considered having one of the most lavishly decorated living rooms in the late 1600s. During King Louis XIV's reign, the architectural Style Louis XIV or Louis Quatorze was established. This style can also be identified as the French Classicism and had an influence on other countries.[13] It included the bold use of marble and bronze materials. Louis XIV worked alongside Louis Le Vau and Augustin-Charles d’Aviler to design appartments de parade, otherwise known as formal rooms that usually consisted of discussing and conducting business matters. They also designed, appartements de commodité, which were rooms that the homeowners could relax and lounge in.[14] This style, known as The Style Louis XV, or Louis Quinze, was designed intentionally to combine formality with a new level of comfort that people were yet to discover. [15] Charles Étienne Briseux, French architect whose architectural style was prominently Louis Quinze, published L’Architecture moderne in 1728, introduced comfort which later became an obsession to have specific materiality and furnishings within the interior of a space. Its influenced began in Paris, France, and then quickly spread across Europe reaching the attention of the wealthy and lavish.