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The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--And the Modern Home Began
Joan Dejean
Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, ...