The Age of Comfort, When Paris Discovered Casual - and the Modern Home Began
by Dejean, Joan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 159691405X
- ISBN 13
- 9781596914056
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About This Item
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009. First US Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers are faintly foxed, text clean Edges very slightly marked and browned Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an invitation to seduction. With the sofa came many other changes in interior space we now take for granted: private bedrooms, bathrooms, and the original living rooms.
None of this could have happened without a colourful cast of visionaries-legendary architects, the first interior designers, and the women who shaped the tastes of two successive kings of France: Louis XIV's mistress Madame de Maintenon and Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour. Their revolutionary ideas would have a direct influence on realms outside the home, from clothing to literature and gender relations, changing the way people lived and related to one another for the foreseeable future. Colour photos, colour and B & W illustrations
None of this could have happened without a colourful cast of visionaries-legendary architects, the first interior designers, and the women who shaped the tastes of two successive kings of France: Louis XIV's mistress Madame de Maintenon and Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour. Their revolutionary ideas would have a direct influence on realms outside the home, from clothing to literature and gender relations, changing the way people lived and related to one another for the foreseeable future. Colour photos, colour and B & W illustrations
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53688
- Title
- The Age of Comfort, When Paris Discovered Casual - and the Modern Home Began
- Author
- Dejean, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 159691405X
- ISBN 13
- 9781596914056
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 295
- Keywords
- Home Decorating Styles Age of Comfort, Paris, lifestyles, home decorating
- X weight
- 600.000 kg
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
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- Octavo
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Foxed
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