Melanie Doderer-Winkler is an art historian and former furniture specialist at Christie’s, London. She writes and lectures about the splendour and pageantry of eighteenth-century entertaining.
'[This] impressive doctoral thesis turned fascinating narrative
shows us how many different forms the human desire to celebrate
took in the eighteenth century – and how irresistible conspicuous
consumption has always been. Melanie Doderer-Winkler’s exhaustively
detailed tome documents the myriad skills of hundreds of designers,
artists, craftsmen and labourers at the service of the rich and the
high born for parties, ceremonies, parades, pageants and
processions – the secular rituals that bind these excessive
communities.'—Marina Vaizey, V&A Magazine
*V&A Magazine*
'Magnificent Entertainments is the first book dedicated to this
interesting subject and it is meticulously researched and
illustrated with hundreds of rare, contemporary views depicting
long-vanished triumphs.'—Tim Knox, Country Life
*Country Life*
"Clear the decks for Melanie Doderer-Winkler's sumptuous
Magnificent Entertainments, an immaculately researched, written and
illustrated blockbuster in the temporary pavilions, ballrooms,
feasts and fantasties that Georgian foppery so delighted in."—Nicky
Haslam, The Spectator
*The Spectator*
‘Doderer-Winkler’s great achievement as an archaeologist of the
ephemeral is to bring such events to vivid life from the claims of
prints and press releases, eyewitness accounts – and, critically,
the bill.’—Christopher Woodward, World of Interiors Magazine
*World of Interiors*
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