Features of the interior of noble and merchant mansions of the first half of the XIX century (based on the materials of Astrakhan)

10.54398/1818510Х_2023_1_9

Annotation

The history of interior design belongs to a fairly young area of historical research, scientific interest in which took shape only in the second half of the XX century. Now we live in a "redesigned world" (Ralph Kaplan), which determines the activation of attention to the past of design, including the past of the interior. This topic is especially in demand in regional studies, in the content of which much has been studied, with the exception of the "material world". All of the above actualizes the topic of this study. The work is based on sources characterizing the interior of Russian mansions of the first half of the XIX century, as well as on sources of local lore, in the study of which the historical-genetic method and methods of system-functional analysis and synthesis are applied. The article emphasizes that having your own house with fashionable interior accessories and decor in prestigious areas of metropolitan and provincial cities of Russia was a measure of the status and wealth of their owners in the first half of the XIX century. It is noted that during the period of the late Empire and the beginning of eclecticism, the concept of comfort changed, which was reflected both in the changed layout of buildings and in the introduction of new approaches to interior decoration

Keywords

• noble, merchant mansions
• empire
• status
• fashion
• interior
• decoration
• wallpaper
• psyche- mirrors
• comfort concept
• luxury items
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