The 19th century Spanish house-museum as a case for the bourgeois comfort: furniture that creates spaces

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Soledad Pérez Mateo

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The 18th century house museum reflects new social habits usually attached to commodity as a term which is often confused with comfort. Its museography reveals how furniture is the material that better shows the transformation of new domestic behavior the inside of a bourgeois house. In this sense, the main inmovable characteristics attached to commodity will be analyzed being: the functional value of furniture, the appropriation of past styles and the abundance of textiles asserting in this way the social identity of bourgeois lifestyles.

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Pérez Mateo, S. (2016). The 19th century Spanish house-museum as a case for the bourgeois comfort: furniture that creates spaces. Además De. Revista on Line De Artes Decorativas Y diseño, (2), 69-90. https://doi.org/10.46255/add.2016.2.48
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