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Senior Lecturer, Art and Design History, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London.
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Book Chapters by Barbara Lasic
P. Bianchi, Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period (1450–1750): Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces (Routledge), 2022
Founded in the early 17th century by King Henry IV, the Garde Meuble Royal de la Couronne, was a ... more Founded in the early 17th century by King Henry IV, the Garde Meuble Royal de la Couronne, was a seminal body in the management and deployment of furnishings across French royal residences. Both an administrative body and a network of conveniently located storage facilities, it housed a permanent supply of goods produced by the royal manufactures and workshops that had raised French art and craftsmanship to a high level of perfection, and had become an example to the rest of Europe. Administered by high-ranking Intendants who were often enlightened collectors in their own right, the Garde Meuble had a number of ‘boutiques’ for the conservation and repair of objects, but also dedicated display spaces where foreign ambassadors and dignitaries could come and admire the unrivalled quality of France’s furnishings and objects d’art. The Garde Meuble had therefore a dual mission: to sustain and stimulate France’s luxury industry, and promote the glorification of the crown and the exaltation of the power of the monarch.
This essay will contextualise the existence and management of the Garde-Meuble within the context of France’s cultural policies. It will examine the identity of the Garde-Meuble exhibition spaces as hybrids between museal sites and commercial premises, and interrogate the role of its intendants as proto-curators. In doing so, the current study hopes to illuminate the fluid boundaries that existed between public and private, royal and personal property, and address some of the complex, interlocking, and occasionally conflicting relationships that operated between the crown and its manufactures.
C. Anderson, A Cultural History of Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
P. McNeil, A Cultural History of Fashion in the Long Eighteenth Century, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Elizabeth Miller & Hilary Young (eds), The Arts of Living, (London: V&A Publishing, 2015).
Articles by Barbara Lasic
Colnaghi Studies Journal, 2023
Conference Papers by Barbara Lasic
P. Bianchi, Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period (1450–1750): Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces (Routledge), 2022
Founded in the early 17th century by King Henry IV, the Garde Meuble Royal de la Couronne, was a ... more Founded in the early 17th century by King Henry IV, the Garde Meuble Royal de la Couronne, was a seminal body in the management and deployment of furnishings across French royal residences. Both an administrative body and a network of conveniently located storage facilities, it housed a permanent supply of goods produced by the royal manufactures and workshops that had raised French art and craftsmanship to a high level of perfection, and had become an example to the rest of Europe. Administered by high-ranking Intendants who were often enlightened collectors in their own right, the Garde Meuble had a number of ‘boutiques’ for the conservation and repair of objects, but also dedicated display spaces where foreign ambassadors and dignitaries could come and admire the unrivalled quality of France’s furnishings and objects d’art. The Garde Meuble had therefore a dual mission: to sustain and stimulate France’s luxury industry, and promote the glorification of the crown and the exaltation of the power of the monarch.
This essay will contextualise the existence and management of the Garde-Meuble within the context of France’s cultural policies. It will examine the identity of the Garde-Meuble exhibition spaces as hybrids between museal sites and commercial premises, and interrogate the role of its intendants as proto-curators. In doing so, the current study hopes to illuminate the fluid boundaries that existed between public and private, royal and personal property, and address some of the complex, interlocking, and occasionally conflicting relationships that operated between the crown and its manufactures.
C. Anderson, A Cultural History of Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
P. McNeil, A Cultural History of Fashion in the Long Eighteenth Century, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Elizabeth Miller & Hilary Young (eds), The Arts of Living, (London: V&A Publishing, 2015).
Colnaghi Studies Journal, 2023
Journal of the History of Collections, 2023
Journal of the History of Collections, 2014