This book presents a series of conference papers which explore a
topic that has received a good deal of interest in recent years,
namely the material culture of the country house and its
presentation to the public. This links in with academic interest in
the consumption practices of the elite, and in the country house as
a lived and living space, which was consciously transformed
according to fashion and personal taste; but also ties in well with
our concern as curators to present a coherent narrative of English
Heritage and other properties and their contents to the modern
visitor. The proceedings address a number of current academic
debates about elite consumption practices, and the role of landed
society as arbiters of taste. By looking at the country house as
lived space many of the papers throw up interesting questions about
the accumulation and arrangement of objects; the way in which rooms
were used and experienced by both owners and visitors, and how this
sense of `living history' can be presented meaningfully to the
public. The conference was international in scope, so the
experience in the United Kingdom can be compared with that in other
European countries, throwing new light on our understanding of
consumption and the country house.
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