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Item Number: 133271
Title: 18th Century Birth of Design : Furniture Masterpieces 1650-1790
Author: Mabille, Gerard ; Daniel Alcoufe (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782878441949
Description: Dijon: Faton, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 279pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Chateau de Versailles. English text. Summary: The sole purpose of this book, published to tie in with a magnificent exhibition at the Château de Versailles, is to lay bare the incredible inventiveness of the century of Enlightenment, that century in which, for the first time, furniture became an art. Architects, artists and dealers as well as ordinary craftsmen set about organising furniture and elaborating it as never before. The eighteenth century was to turn three everyday acts – sitting, sitting at table, storing things – into an art. Furniture changed its skin and shape. For the first time, it explored new materials, sought out new forms. It broke free of architecture, but went on playing with some of its styles. It became movable and occasional, and the notion of comfort came into being. Furniture found its identity in everyday actions to which it was closely linked. The connection between the individual and furniture became obvious. From its disposition to its ingenuity, and through the matchless quality of its incomparable workmanship, furniture in the eighteenth century came to be an integral part of daily life and fashion, quick to respond to changing moods and styles. Having thus secured both a new status and recognition, it became for ever a distinct element in the intellectual process of creation.

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