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F. Bollerey
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Setting the Stage for Modernity
Cafés, Hotels, Restaurants. Places of Pleasure and Leisure
Cafés, hotels, and restaurants are at the core of the impact of modernity. With these places of pleasure and leisure, new architectural forms were promoted, creating the perfect setting for the public performance and image cultivation of urbanites in the emerging metropolises of
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Anthology: food, people and cooking
An anthology of literary and other observations
Organised both chronologically and systematically, this concise anthology examines the theme of the restaurant and eating. It contains excerpts from John Evelyn, Marcel Proust, Honoré de Balzac and others. One aspect is the perception of foreign urban cultures and their customs o
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This chapter addresses ‘western’ society and its culinary culture, discussing the development of the art of cooking, those at the forefront and the modern renowned culinary philosophers and their critics. It then deals with the origins of the restaurant as an expression of modern
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Case study: In 1930 the automatique-restaurant chain Presto also established another branch designed by Bauer at the Place de la Bourse, between the Rue Vivienne and the Rue des Filles St. Thomas. With the Parisian bar-automatique-restaurants Presto Otto Bauer succeeded not only
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According to urban academic myth, the first restaurants emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. From the very beginning in the elegant salons of the latter days of the Ancien Régime, the design of restaurants has been closely related to ideas of how food should be presented
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