[PDF.14xy] The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began

[PDF.jz53] The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Quite Boring.|By New Yorker|this is just barely ok. Absolutely boring presentation and writing. I thought it would be more personal -- about how people lived in their homes. Very disappointed in this book.
every chapter is devoted to one thing -- one chapter on flushing toilets, one chapter on chairs, one chapter on heat .. etc so there is no flow or connection from cha|From Publishers Weekly|French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant worksho

Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an invitation to seduction. With the sofa came many other changes in interior space w...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began   |  Joan DeJean. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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