Main entry:

Ziskin, Rochelle, 1954-

Title & Author:

The Place Vendôme : architecture and social mobility in eighteenth-century Paris / Rochelle Ziskin.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Description:

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Louis XIV's Parisian place royale Reconceived -- Investors and Proprietors -- The "Lackey-Financier" -- The Ideal: The Noble Hotel -- Social Representation at the Place Vendome -- 2. Social Representation and Gendered Realms -- The Maison de La Vieuxville-Bourvalais (No. 13) -- The Maison Reich de Pennautier and the Hotel d'Evreux (No. 19) -- Gender and Planning at the Place Vendome -- 3. Typology at the Place Vendome -- Mansart's Unbuilt Projects (Nos. 9 to 11) and the Maison Le Bas de Montargis (No. 7) -- Other Dwellings in the pans coupes (Nos. 8 and 22) -- The L-Shaped Type -- The Smaller Houses -- 4. The Regency and Its Aftermath -- The Chambre de Justice, 1716-1717 -- A Satellite of the Palais Royal -- 5. "Not at all Monsieur Jourdain ..." -- The Maison Crozat in the 1720s -- Crozat's Maison -- 6. Mobility, Adaptation, and Reconstruction -- The Maison Crozat de Tugny During the 1740s -- The Hotel de Thiers (No. 19) -- 7. The Caisse, Collecting, and the Boudoir: The Place Vendome at the End of the Old Regime -- Corporate Distinctions and the Rise of Tax Farmers -- Tableaux and Bureaux: Blondel de Gagny (No. 15) -- The Cabinet and Boudoir: the Maison Dange (No. 9) -- "Nature" at the Maison Baudard de Sainte-James (No. 12) -- The Marquet -- Bankers in Paris.
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Summary:

"In the Place Vendome, Rochelle Ziskin explores the sociological foundations of domestic design in eighteenth-century France, the acknowledged leader of domestic architecture in this period. Focusing on the Place Vendome, which was developed by the financiers of Paris, she examines the representational strategies and dilemmas of French elites, which were crucial to the formation of a French mode of design. These strategies are illuminated through a study of the socially mobile households of financiers, with their evolving but ambiguous social status. Through analyses of social distinctions and ambitions, Ziskin explores the manner in which the dwellings of the Place Vendome embodied beliefs about the nature of society, the appropriate relations among social groups, as well as those between men and women, parents and children, and masters and domestics. This study also includes a wide range of illustrated material that is published here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521592593 (hb)
9780521592598 (hb)

Subject:

Architecture and society France Paris History 18th century.
Architecture et société France Paris Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Architektur
Ausstattung
Geschichte
Sozialgeschichte
Soziologie
Wohnungsbau
Soziale Mobilität
Stedenbouw.
Pleinen.
Architecture and society France Paris 18th century.
Architecture Aspect social France Paris (France) 18e siècle.
Place Vendôme (Paris, France)
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
Paris (France) Constructions
France Paris.
France Paris Place Vendôme.
Frankreich
Place Vendôme
Paris (France) Place Vendôme.
Paris Place Vendôme.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205843
Call No.: NA9072.P3 P5 1999
Status: Available