Isbn: 9781560987161 - culture and comfort: parlor making and middle-class identity, 1850-1930 (29 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in palace hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast suites of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commercein the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and draperybecame stronger.By the 1920s the parlor's decline signaled both a blurring of the Victorian distinctions between public and private manners and the transfer of middle-class identity from the home to the automobile. Describing the deportment a parlor required, the activities it sheltered, and the marketing and manufacturing breakthroughs that made it available to all, Culture and Comfort reveals the full range of cultural messages conveyed by nineteenth-century parlor materials. Tracing the fortunes of the parlor from its early incarnations in "palace" hotels and steamships through its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century to its metamorphosis into the modern living room, Katherine C. Grier shows how the parlor's appointments reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in palace hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast suites of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commercein the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and draperybecame stronger.By the 1920s the parlor's decline signaled both a blurring of the Victorian distinctions between public and private manners and the transfer of middle-class identity from the home to the automobile. Describing the deportment a parlor required, the activities it sheltered, and the marketing and manufacturing breakthroughs that made it available to all, Culture and Comfort reveals the full range of cultural messages conveyed by nineteenth-century parlor materials. Tracing the fortunes of the parlor from its early incarnations in "palace" hotels and steamships through its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century to its metamorphosis into the modern living room, Katherine C. Grier shows how the parlor's appointments reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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