1st Edition
Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor
By Carolina Brown
Copyright 2024
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The... Read more
Introduction, I. Carl Eric Wadenstierna and NäS Manor, II. At the Sewing Table, III. At the Writing Table, IV. At the Dressing Table, V. At the Games Tables, VI. At the Coffee Table, Concluding Words, Bibliography and Sources, Index.
Biography
Associate Professor and senior lecturer in art history at Uppsala University, Sweden. For over three decades the arts and culture of the early modern period – focusing on portraiture, interior design and fashion – has been leading themes in her teaching and research.
