The age of comfort

when Paris went casual--and the modern home began

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The age of comfort

when Paris went casual--and the modern home began

1st U.S. ed.
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Bloomsbury
Language
English

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The age of comfort: when Paris went casual--and the modern home began
2009, Bloomsbury
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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Table of Contents

A short history of modern comfort
An architecture of comfort
The bathroom
The flush toilet
Heating
Easy seats
Convenience furniture
The first celebrity sofa
The invention of interior decoration
The bedroom
The boudoir
Dressing for comfort
The fabric of their lives
The comfortable body
Coda : l'art de vivre.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/812
Library of Congress
NK949.P27 D45 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23165304M
Internet Archive
ageofcomfortwhen0000deje
ISBN 10
159691405X
ISBN 13
9781596914056
LCCN
2009006602
OCLC/WorldCat
286448602
Library Thing
8460379
Goodreads
6549178

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