Taste and Power
Subtitle: Furnishing Modern France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 24)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 24, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780520213654
Subjects: Cultural studies; Furniture & cabinetmaking; Interior design; Social history; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Europe - France; Furniture; History / General; Sociology - General
First sentence: Objects, especially domestic objects, played a distinctive role in the representation and maintenance of power under absolutism; the crown displayed its strength both through its possessions and through its control of those who made, sold, and bought them.