During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts.
Yet what constituted the Exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did.
Scholars have emphasized this era\'s emerging taste for the Exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts