THE TASTEMAKERS
BRITISH DEALERS AND THE ANGLO-GALLIC INTERIOR, 1785-1865

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• AuthorDiana Davis
• PublisherGetty Publications
• Date of publicationJuin 2020
• Language(s)English
• IllustrationsColour, b&w ill.
• Pages272
• DescriptionHardback
• Price (VAT incl.)62.00 €
• AvailabilityOn order

This volume demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from "ancien regime" France into cherished "antiques" and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period.

Price (VAT incl.) : 62.00 €