Daniel Cottier

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Designer, Decorator, Dealer

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This book traces the remarkable journey of Daniel Cottier (1838–91) from a Glasgow apprentice coach painter to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts firm with international branches. It explores Cottier's role as a gifted designer and art entrepreneur who capitalised on late 19th-century bourgeois culture's emphasis on family, home, and church during a building and decorating boom. Embracing Aestheticism, a global cultural and design movement circa 1860–1900, Cottier harnessed the era's pursuit of beauty alongside its commercial potential. Beyond biography, the book sheds light on the significant cultural convergence of Aestheticism and bourgeois prosperity of the period.
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Ideal for readers interested in the history of art and design, cultural history enthusiasts, and those fascinated by the intersections of art, commerce, and 19th-century society.

The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he played in the dissemination of 19th-century Aestheticism

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This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838–91) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches on three continents.

This gifted designer and brilliant art entrepreneur keenly spotted one of the key aspects of late 19th-century bourgeois culture—its focus on family, home, and church—and seized the artistic and commercial opportunities of the building and decorating boom that it brought about.

Cottier was a proponent of Aestheticism, an international trend in the history of culture, art, and design from about 1860 to 1900: he understood the era’s desire for beauty and realized the economic possibilities of its commoditization.

Beyond biography, therefore, this book illuminates a significant event of late 19th-century cultural history—Aestheticism’s cult of beauty meeting with the bourgeoisie’s financial ability to possess it.

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Claire Blakey, DAS Newsletter: "This publication is a fascinating, comprehensive and engaging account of Cottier’s life and work. Beautifully illustrated . . . it is a fitting testament to a great design thinker."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913107185

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 May 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Illustration: 200 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Edited by Max Donnelly
Edited by Andrew Montana
Edited by Suzanne Veldink

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

Collections

Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir European History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is professor emeritus, Seton Hall University, and is a founding editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Max Donnelly is curator of 19th-century furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.