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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Keywords Fashion Pattern Domesticity Magazine Gothic Conversation Correspondence France À l'origine de l'expansion du papier peint … la lettre qui faisait suite au ‘Cabinet des modes’, avait modifié son titre pour rendre hommage au magazine anglais ‘Fashionable magazine’, publié à Londres, qui l’avait lui-même cité l’année précédente, en 1785. C’est dire si les modes … Walpole fera un usage considérable des papiers peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. … Fashion … Pattern … Domesticity … Magazine … Gothic … Conversation … Correspondence … France … Wallpapers …Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… People > Art and Literature Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Keywords Correspondence Gothic Gardens Fashion Né en 1717 à Londres, Horace Walpole est le troisième fils du célèbre ministre Robert Walpole. Après des études à … un modèle incomparable pour sa demeure de Strawberry Hill, située près de Londres. … Correspondence … Gothic … Gardens … Fashion … Horace Walpole (and the English garden) …Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… Practices > Games & Sports Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords sports horseracing Ascot Travelogues pastimes Gambling Fashion culture Urban life Origines, évolutions et architecture d’un domaine royal L’hippodrome d’Ascot, ‘cottage de … aux pratiques qui firent d’Ascot un lieu à la mode. … sports … horseracing … Ascot … Travelogues … pastimes … Gambling … Fashion … culture … Urban life … Ascot …Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… part of the dress ensemble for both men and women, so changing styles can highlight shifts in eighteenth-century fashions. Shoes also affected bodily posture and movement, so related to the activities of elite society. The fashion for high heels gave elite men a commanding posture over their social inferiors, whereas dancing shoes had a … at balls. Footwear therefore helps us to understand the physical aspect of social interactions. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Shoes Buckles Boots Dress Dance body The shoe is a very good example of a material object that informed …Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Abstract The betting book is the material expression of the sociable practice of betting, which became fashionable as part of the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain. More than a simple book used for recording the … Club College Gentleman The betting book is the material expression of the sociable practice of betting, which became fashionable as part of the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain. More than a simple leisure accessory used for … considered as a futile and peculiar ritual. The betting book had various functions as a significant cultural marker of a fashionable social practice and as an object of sociability. The bets recorded in such a specific archival source mirror …Pagination
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