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Percier and Fontaine designed every detail in their interiors: state beds, sculptural side tables, and other furniture, wall lights and candlesticks, chandeliers, door hardware, textiles, and wallpaper.

On special occasions, Percier was called upon to design for the Sèvres porcelain manufactory: in 1814 Percier's published designs were adapted by Alexandre Brogniart, director of Sèvres, a grand classicising vase 137 cm tall, that came to be known as the " Londonderry Vase " when Louis XVIII gave it to the Marquess of Londonderry just before the Congress of Vienna.

Percier and Fontaine published several later books, notably Recueil de décoration intérieure concernant tout ce qui rapporte à l ' ameublement (" Collection of interior designs: Everything that relates to furniture ", 1812 ) with its engravings in a spare outline technique.

These engravings spread their style beyond the Empire ; they helped put a French stamp on the English Regency style and influenced the connoisseur-designer, Henry Hope.