Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Volume 24

Author/Contributor(s):	Auslander, Leora
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	04/24/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.