{"product_id":"the-tastemakers-british-dealers-and-the-anglogallic-interior-17851865-9781606066416","title":"The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior  1785-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the development  role  and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors.  In this volume  Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism  Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien rgime France into cherished antiques and  equally  as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture  bronze work  and porcelain. The resulting old  new  and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference  and they were prized by collectors  who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period.  The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patrons perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created  contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects  language  and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers  who emerge center stage as traders  makers  and tastemakers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666229551157,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606066412","price":66.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606066416.jpg?v=1782424112","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tastemakers-british-dealers-and-the-anglogallic-interior-17851865-9781606066416","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}