The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean

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

Joan DeJean

304 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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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 s...

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