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Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Volume 24

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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how ...

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Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Volume 24 1998, University of California Press, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520213654

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