English Furniture, 1660-1714

English Furniture, 1660-1714
Author: Adam Bowett
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The first comprehensive re-evaluation for 100 years. New and original research. Re-assesses the chronology of late seventeenth century English furniture design. A standard reference for beginners and Specialists alike. Extensively illustrated.

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714
Author: Bridget Orr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2001-08-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521773508

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.

At Home in the Eighteenth Century

At Home in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Stephen G. Hague
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000449386

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.

The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780

The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780
Author: S. Hague
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137378387

The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social mobility in the British Atlantic World characterized by incremental social change.

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration
Author: Christina M. Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350280038

The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Rooted in medieval beliefs and preoccupations, the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curiosity as Europeans increasingly engaged with the rest of the world. Interiors in both public and private spaces changed to reflect these cultural encounters and, with them, the furniture with which they were populated. Visually, furniture of this period displayed new designs, forms and materials. In its uses, it also mirrored developments in science, technology, government and social relationships as prints became more widely distributed, the Wunderkammer developed and there was religious strife and resistance to absolute monarchical rule. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.