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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… its merits for the community and its positive impact on employment and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Art Commodities Community Consumption Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and … also to display it as evidence of their status. While philosophers, historians, and literati , from Plato to Werner Sombart, have mused about luxury for over 2,000 years, its meanings have varied greatly, as have the judgements passed on it. … , too, defends luxury and links it to commerce, albeit in a less provocative manner. His essay ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’ (1752) distinguishes between an ‘innocent’ and ‘blameable’ luxury; but mostly it emphasizes the advantages of …
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… materials such as mahogany embellished with brass inlay. Although such tea-tables were expensive, they were a central part of the polite equipment of tea service, alongside porcelain teacups and slop bowls, silver teapots and teaspoons, and … importantly reflected women’s taste and patterns of consumption, and in this way they were distinctive. 2 2 . Ann Martin, ‘Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America’, in Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: … public culture in the period, such as coffeehouses and clubs. Accordingly Addison says: ‘ I would therefore in a very particular Manner recommend these my Speculations to all well-regulated Families, that set apart an Hour in every Morning …
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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