Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… even working people, in sociable contexts, for instance at the tea-table (china) and dances (dress), likewise in public leisure spaces. 3 Eighteenth-century Britain saw an ongoing luxury debate, which occurred during a period when … that the process was more of a gradual nature. The new luxury was exhibited in domestic spaces and in public spaces of leisure. Since domestic spaces were the stage where costly items for example furniture, paintings and tableware, were …
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
Encyclopedia