[PDF.19mt] 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

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 | #1109861 in Books |  Bloomsbury USA |  2010-09-06 |  2010-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .36 x.88 x6.21l,.83 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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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

This remarkable history of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century France introduces the age when comfort became a new ideal. Home life, formerly characterized by stiff formality, was revolutionized by the simultaneous introduction of the sofa (a radical invitation to recline or converse), the original living rooms, and the very concept of private bedrooms and bathrooms, with far-reaching effects on the way people lived and related to one another. DeJean highli...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began   |  Joan DeJean.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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