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Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

Brown, Carolina

Hardcover

Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Art HistoryGeneral World HistoryScandinavian History

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ISBN10: 9048562376
ISBN13: 9789048562374
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 15 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
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 comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life is set by their various tables - at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.

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