Item #165437 Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930. Katherine C. Grier.
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930

Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Softcover. Glossy teal softcover with white lettering and BW-photograph. xii, 267 pp. BW illustrations. VG- light wear to edges and corners, previous owner's name inside ink. Item #165437
ISBN: 9781560987161

n Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in “palace” hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast “suites” of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commerce—in the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and drapery—became stronger. -Amazon.

OCLC: 886913560

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