一位创新的设计师和有远见的艺术企业家的故事，以及他在19世纪美学主义的传播中所发挥的重要作用

本书讲述了丹尼尔•科蒂埃（1838年-1891年）从格拉斯哥的马车学徒画家到科蒂埃公司的创始人的惊人崛起。科蒂埃公司司是一家经营美术和装饰艺术额企业，在伦敦、纽约、悉尼和墨尔本设有分支机构。这位才华横溢的设计师和杰出艺术企业家敏锐地发现了十九世纪末资产阶级文化的一个关键方面——它对家庭、住宅和教堂的关注，并抓住了它所带来的建筑和装饰热潮中的艺术和商业机会。美学运动是19世纪60年代中期至19世纪90年代末文化、艺术和设计史上的一个国际趋势，科蒂埃是这场运动的支持者：他了解这个时代对美的渴望，并意识到其商品化的经济可能性。因此，除了传记之外，本书还阐明了19世纪末文化史上的一个重要事件——美学主义对美的崇拜与资产阶级拥有美的经济能力相遇。

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

This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838–

1891) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches in London, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. This gifted designer and brilliant art entrepreneur keenly spotted one of the key aspects of late nineteenth-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 the Aesthetic movement, an international trend in the history of culture, art and design from the mid-1860s to the late 1890s: he understood the era’s desire for beauty and realised the economic possibilities of its commoditisation. Beyond biography, therefore, this book illuminates a significant event of late nineteenth-century cultural history – Aestheticism’s cult of beauty meeting with the bourgeoisie’s financial ability to possess it.