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Comment se produisent, s'exposent, se diffusent et se consomment les produits du luxe ? L'ouvrage collectif explore la question de la spécialisation progressive d'un commerce voué aux objets précieux qui concourent à l'embellissement de la personne ou du cadre de vie. C'est une publication largement ouverte d'un point de vue chronologique, spatial et disciplinaire, faisant appel à des spécialistes d'horizons différents : histoire, histoire de l'art, économie, littérature, sociologie, etc. et de nationalités également diverses : française, anglaise, russe, roumaine, italienne, hollandaise… 0Cette approche interdisciplinaire du marché du luxe sur la longue durée, du Moyen Age à nos jours, permet de confronter les expériences et de mettre en relief les permanences et les mutations

Though written at different times, and in response to different occasions, the essays in this book aim to offer a convincing and coherent approach to the interpretation of the topic referred to in the title. The initial impetus for this long course of historical research came in 1976, with a project focused on trade relations between Italy and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The results of that project are given in the essay that opens this volume, followed by others that were the fruit of research which, in many ways, grew out of that initial interest.

The fine mahogany secretaire with its secret drawers, the lacquered tea table, Chinese and Japanese porcelain tea ware. These fine luxury goods now seem to belong to the English country house or the exclusive antique shop. But what do they tell us about their eighteenth-century consumers? Who owned these goods, what made them desirable, where did they come from, and how were they made? And how many people actually enjoyed their novelty and fashion? In Luxury and Pleasure in. Eighteenth-Century Britain Maxine Berg explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's ur