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Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house

"Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book outlines traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes...

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Tác giả chính: Stobart, Jon (Tác giả, VerfasserIn)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2022
Loạt:Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
Những chủ đề:
USA
Truy cập trực tuyến:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Các quyển sách có liên quan:Erscheint auch als: Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house
Erscheint auch als: Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house
Ghi chú tác giả:Jon Stobart
Miêu tả
Tóm tắt:"Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book outlines traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts, and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them, made country houses into homes"--
Mô tả sách:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-296
Mô tả vật lý:x, 308 Seiten Illustrationen, Pläne
số ISBN:9781032072913
9781032072920