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This book explores how Percier and Fontaine's desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.
List of contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Finding Revolutionary Architecture in the Decorative Arts
- Visionary Friendship at the End of the Ancien Régime
Clean Sheets and Water Magic
Architects in Training
Roman Fever
Solo Missions
An Etruscan Friendship
- Propulsion and Residue: Constructing the Revolutionary Interior
Rome à Rebours
Staging Antiquity and Austerity
Revolutionary Rearrangements
Seek, Record, Destroy
The Eternal Return of Luxury
- The Recueil de décorations intérieures: Furnishing a New Order
Paper Studios
Furnishing Techniques
Strategies of Redaction
Consuming Desires
Writing Against Fashion
Between the Lines
Empire Styles
- The Platinum Cabinet: Luxury in Times of Uncertainty
Pastoral Pastimes
Incorruptible Precision
Fast Times in Consulate Paris
Haunting Season
- Tent and Throne: Architecture in a State of Emergency
Après Coup
Fantasies of the Ideal Villa
A Permanent Work in Progress
Little Pleasures
The Moving Bivouac
Political Theology
Divorcing the Past
Coda: Revolutionary Atonement
About the author
Iris Moon is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, architecture, and the decorative arts.
Summary
This book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.
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"Professor Moon observes that the identity of the nobility that had been “fixed in seigneurial rights and inalienable ties to the land” and which disappeared in the Revolution, was replaced by “the mercurial personalities of Directory society”and wealth from capital and movable properties."--David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago, H-France Review
