CFP: [Collections] Furniture and Fashion: Interactions
Looking for new insights into eighteenth century material culture, the
recent exhibition “Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the
Eighteenth Century†at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004) displayed
Rococo fashion alongside furniture in period interiors in order to
facilitate a dialogue between these two major aspects of cultural
production. In his essay critically examining this exhibition, design
historian Peter McNeil posed a series of questions which raise some of
the concerns this volume wishes to address regarding the much neglected
relationship between fashion and furniture. “What is the relationship
between fashion, body, artifact and space? Do developments in the history