Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

Author:   Carolina Brown
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
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9789048562374


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 July 2024
Format:   Hardback
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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 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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Author:   Carolina Brown
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789048562374


ISBN 10:   9048562376
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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