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Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

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Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Leaves
130
Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edition
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006
Category
Library
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During the reigns of Louis XV (1723–74) and Louis XVI (1774–92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments. With their fragile surfaces and delicate proportions, tables, chairs, and other pieces of furniture enhanced the elites indulgence in leisurely pursuits, fostering highly complex standards of etiquette and performance. Men and women restated the splendor of the Rococo and Neoclassical interiors of the period in their opulent costumes. For the eighteenth-century libertine and femme du monde, a refined elegance and delicate voluptuousness infused their world with a mood of amorous delight.

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Легкая промышленность;История костюма и моды;

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