| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding revolutionary architecture in the decorative arts; 1 Visionary friendship at the end of the ancien régime; Clean sheets and water magic; Architects in training; Sovereign doom; Roman fever; Solo missions; An Etruscan friendship; 2 Propulsion and residue: Constructing the revolutionary interior; Rome à rebours; Staging antiquity and austerity; Revolutionary rearrangements; Seek, record, destroy; The eternal return of luxury |
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3 The Recueil de décorations intérieures: Furnishing a new orderPaper studios; Furnishing techniques; Strategies of redaction; Consuming desires; Writing against fashion; Between the lines; Empire styles; 4 The platinum cabinet: Luxury in times of uncertainty; Pastoral pastimes; Incorruptible precision; Fast times in Consulate Paris; Haunting season; 5 Tent and throne: Architecture in a state of emergency; Après coup; Fantasies of the ideal villa; A permanent work in progress; Little pleasures; The moving bivouac; Political theology; Divorcing the past; Coda: Revolutionary atonement |
| Notes |
Selected bibliographyIndex |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315316260 |
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1315316269 |
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