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This book accompanies the opening of the V&A's newly redesigned Europe gallery, which features spectacular paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts--textiles, fashion, ceramics, glass, metalwork, prints, and books--created by Europe's finest artists and craftsmen of the 17th and 18th centuries for the period's most important tastemakers, among them Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and Catherine the Great. Outstanding art and domestic objects are discussed within their original contexts to highlight the rhythms and rituals of life during this period. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays explaining the grandeur of court interiors--for which the larger and more elaborate art objects were made--as well as discussion of more-humble period rooms and intimate interiors.
William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central , which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas , which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Ri
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Ward McAllister was a gentlemen living in the mid-to-late 19 th century; this is his commentary of the high society of the time, the parties and social gatherings of the elite in the USA and Europe. Well-travelled and educated in the arts of speech and charming others, the author recounts his memori
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An international sensation from the moment of its publication in Germany last year, this is one of the most extraordinary novels published in years: the story of a monster loose in 18th-century France and his quest for the perfect perfume. The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a f
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Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the decade of Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker, Art Deco and Surrealism, café culture and cabaret. The most famous artists
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