Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

Carolina Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-17726-5 (ISBN)

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During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life is set by their various tables – at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.

Associate Professor and senior lecturer in art history at Uppsala University, Sweden. For over three decades the arts and culture of the early modern period – focusing on portraiture, interior design and fashion – has been leading themes in her teaching and research.

Introduction, I. Carl Eric Wadenstierna and NäS Manor, II. At the Sewing Table, III. At the Writing Table, IV. At the Dressing Table, V. At the Games Tables, VI. At the Coffee Table, Concluding Words, Bibliography and Sources, Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-041-17726-7 / 1041177267
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17726-5 / 9781041177265
Zustand	Neuware