Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France


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Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau.







Karine Arabian & les Arméniens de la mode, XVIIe-XXIe siècle


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Celebrating Armenia year in France, this book and this exhibition take a look back over Armenian expertise in crafts and trades - shoemakers, tailors, embroiderers, knitters, hosiers - and their role in fashion design in France. It also includes the contemporary, in the form of the shoes, bags and costume jewellery of third-generation Armenian accessory designer Karine Arabian.




Bulletin ...


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The Robert Lehman Collection, Volume XV: European and Asian Decorative Arts


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This volume catalogues more than 400 decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the 20th century.




Work and Wages


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This 1989 analysis of the urban trades of eighteenth-century France lays the foundations for studies of the workshop economy in modern European history.







Les industries du luxe en France


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Des glaces de Saint-Gobain et des faïences de Sèvres aux sacs Vuitton, des couverts Christofle et des cristaux de Baccarat aux bijoux Cartier, des robes Chanel et Saint-Laurent aux parfums Dior et Guerlain, de la grande cuisine et des vins fins aux champagnes millésimés, nos industries du luxe ont imposé notre goût dans le monde entier. Cette histoire sociale du luxe, entre art et industrie, décrit ce secteur comme une coupe transversale de notre tissu industriel, de l'atelier familial et artisanal au grand groupe intégré. Une histoire industrielle qui est aussi une histoire d'hommes. Chapitre premier. Les industries du luxe dans le dispositif industriel français Chapitre II. Entre artisanat et grand capital : structures de production et organisation du travail dans les industries du luxe Chapitre III. Luxe, pouvoir et société Chapitre IV. Les industries du luxe entre art et industrie Chapitre V. Les arts de la table sur la défensive Chapitre VI. La haute mode, une constellation Chapitre VII. Des parfums et des bijoux Chapitre VIII. La consommation de luxe : les arts de la bouche Chapitre IX. La consommation de luxe : l'habitat Chapitre X. Quelques versions modernes duluxe Conclusion Index.




The Bedroom


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An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king’s chamber to child’s sleeping quarters to lovers’ trysting place to monk’s cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot’s engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom—birth, sex, illness, death—in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.