Between Luxury and the Everyday: Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France

This collection of essays, co-edited with Katie Scott, redefines the study of the decorative arts in eighteenth-century France. It includes broader accounts of the impact of Enlightenment philosophy in shaping the understanding of the 'decorative arts' alongside case studies of silks, furniture, and architecture, drawing on recent theories of the body and space. Alive to the everyday pleasures found in objects, furnishings and dress, the volume illuminates the material worlds of consumers, from the extravagance of the court to the more modest taste of middle-class families, linking these material worlds to political and social life. The culture of luxury goods is considered alongside the changes to dress and design in the Revolutionary period

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