This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary
international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than
200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join
communities already in exile spread far and wide. First-generation
Huguenot refugees included hundreds of trained artists, designers,
and craftsmen. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality
of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their
apprentices; sons, godsons, cousins, and to successive generations,
who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although
silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot
settlers are associated, their significant contribution to
architecture, ceramics, design, clock and watchmaking, engraving,
furniture, woodwork, sculpture, portraiture, and art education
provides fascinating insight into the motivation and resolve of
this highly skilled diaspora. Thanks to a sophisticated network of
Huguenot merchants, retailers, and bankers who financed their
production, their wares reached a global market.
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