# Empire Style (アンピール様式) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.525 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/empire-style
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Empire Style, a style from Furniture and Interiors, 1804–1814.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: when a room has to declare authority through the size of its plain surfaces and a few gilt points, not through more carving, or when matched pairs of furniture are used to set the axis of a room. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Gilt mounts sit as evenly spaced points on plain mahogany surfaces
- Front legs end in a lion's paw below and a winged sphinx head above, which carries the arm
- A row of round rosette mounts runs along the lower rail of the back at equal spacing
- Chairs come in matched pairs, with seat and wall covered in the same dark silk

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Place furniture in pairs against the axis of the room and divide the wall into three horizontal zones. Gather the empty space into a few large plain surfaces instead of scattering it
- Type and lettering: Keep lettering off the furniture and on the textiles or the wall. Set Roman capitals in one line with wide spacing and add no decorative strokes
- Material and surface: Lay mahogany veneer across broad surfaces and fix gilt bronze mounts onto it. Cover seat and wall in the same silk, with a dark blue or red ground so the gold reads as points
- Colour: #C6A34A carries the ground, #1E3566 is the colour the style is remembered by, #4E2A1E holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: luxury, trust

## What goes wrong

Add mounts until they fill the surface and the plain ground vanishes, taking the style back to rococo busyness.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/empire-style/design.md