A Cultural Plutocracy? Transnational families and the consumption of luxury goods in Britain and in France between 1870 and 1930

本项目探讨了居住在英国和法国的精英跨国家庭（1870-1930）的物质、社会和文化身份。在二十世纪之交，暴发户已经成为一个世界性的精英，其特点是获得和吸收与贵族有关的经济和文化资本。通过研究这一新兴资产阶级中的十几个跨国家庭，以及为塑造这些家庭的房屋、室内装饰和藏品做出贡献的各种角色，该项目探索了支撑这些家庭新的超国家身份的文化和风格价值观，并分析了这一新的富豪统治如何重塑品味和奢侈品的模式。

This project explores the material, social and cultural identities of elite transnational families resident in England and France (c.1870-1930). At the turn of the twentieth century, the nouveaux riches had emerged as a cosmopolitan elite characterised by the acquisition and assimilation of the economic and cultural capital associated with the nobility. By studying a dozen transnational families from this new bourgeoisie, and the various actors who contributed to shaping their houses, interiors and collections, this project explores the cultural and stylistic values that underpinned their new supranational identity and analyses how this new plutocracy reinvented patterns of taste and luxury.