num_pages: 512
description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
language: English
title: Taste and Power (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
titlecomplete: Taste and Power (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 24)
genres: Grad School, History
ratings_count: 18
series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
publisher: University of California Press