Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century

Title:

Author:

Koda, Harold, author.

ISBN:

9781588391476

9780300107142

Personal Author:

Koda, Harold, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.

General Note:

"This catalog has been adapted from the exhibition "Dangerous liaisons:fashion and furniture in the 18th century" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 29 to September 6, 2004."--T.p. verso.

Exhibition title: Dangerous liaisons: fashion and furniture in the 18th century.

Contents:

Interior motives: seduction by decoration in eighteenth-century France -- Portrait: an unexpected entanglement -- Lev©♭e: the assiduous admirer -- Music lesson: a window of opportunity -- Withdrawing room: a helpful valet -- Masked beauty -- Favorite -- Broken vase: a consoling merchant -- Card game: cheating at Cavagnole -- Late supper: the memento.

Abstract:

Published after the closing of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Set against a background of French Rococo and Neoclassical masterpieces of paintings, furniture, and decorative arts in the Museum's Wrightsman Galleries, these charming images reveal how French style in fashon and interiors was not only meant to be beautiful, but also to attract, arouse and seduce the viewer. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Subject Term:

Clothing and dress -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.

Furniture -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.

Decorative arts -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.

Furniture -- Influence -- Exhibitions.

Geographic Term:

France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.

Added Author:

Bolton, Andrew, 1966-,

Hellman, Mimi,

Added Corporate Author:

Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.)