The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began - Brossura

DeJean, Joan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 160819230X ISBN 13: 9781608192304

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, 2013

Riassunto

This remarkable history of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century France introduces the age when comfort became a new ideal. Home life, formerly characterized by stiff formality, was revolutionized by the simultaneous introduction of the sofa (a radical invitation to recline or converse), the original living rooms, and the very concept of private bedrooms and bathrooms, with far-reaching effects on the way people lived and related to one another. DeJean highlights the revolutionary ideas-and the bold personalities behind them-that fomented change in the home and beyond, providing new insight into the household habits and creature comforts we often take for granted.

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It may seem strange to think of the sofa as an agent of cultural change. Yet The Age of Comfort... shows how it not only helped transform the way homes were designed but also struck a blow to longstanding norms of social order. (New York Times)

[A] fascinating and surprising study. (Boston Globe)

Fascinating, immensely readable. (Allure.com)

Lively and engaging... A uniquely focused social history that will find broad appeal among scholars and casual historians alike. (The Magazine Antiques)

Gives us the vivid personalities who broke with convention by following their own whims... You don't need to be a Francophile to read this book, but you will be one by the time you finish it. (T: The New York Times Style Magazine)

An entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765... Well researched and brimming with anecdotes and architectural and design details. (Publishers Weekly)

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"[A] fascinating and carefully researched volume ... This way of looking at history, moving outward from the particulars of everyday life, is particularly thrilling."-Los Angeles Times

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 160819230X
• ISBN 13: 9781608192304
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304