Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

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Название: Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

Автор: Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Mimi Hellman

Издательство: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Год: 2006

Страниц: 130

Формат: PDF

Размер: 50 Mb

Язык: Английский

During the reigns of Louis XV (1723–74) and Louis XVI (1774–92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments. With their fragile surfaces and delicate proportions, tables, chairs, and other pieces of furniture enhanced the elite's indulgence in leisurely pursuits, fostering highly complex standards of etiquette and performance. Men and women restated the splendor of the Rococo and Neoclassical interiors of the period in their opulent costumes. For the eighteenth-century libertine and femme du monde, a refined elegance and delicate voluptuousness infused their world with a mood of amorous delight.