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  • Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

    Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor by Brown, Carolina;

    Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 1 December 2025

    • ISBN 9781041177265
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    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.

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