Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
In Britain the French Style was used primarily for interior decoration rather than architecture. One exception to this was Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, re-built between 1834 and 1839 to the designs of its owner Earl de Grey. He was inspired by Parisian buildings and French 18th-century engraved designs. Inside, the rooms were also in the French Style with carved wooden panelling, elaborate plaster ceilings picked out in gold, and walls set with panels of brightly coloured silk. In some of the rooms the earl fitted authentic 18th-century French panelling.