Whether you wish to restore a period Victorian house, or simply recreate the intimate splendour of the period, this comprehensive book will show you how. Drawing on original catalogue material, Victorian House Style features many specially commissioned colour photographs of modern 'Victorian' interiors. This material helps shed light on the many artistic influences on Victorian style, and provides a pictorial social history of domestic life at the end of the 19th century. After looking at the development of the Victorian house and the main architectural styles that evolved, further chapters examine the design potential of the various structural features. The author looks at doors and windows, halls and staircases, cornices and ceiligs. Victorian style in individual rooms, from living rooms and kitchens to bathrooms and bedrooms is also explored in detail. Together with the facade and the garden, these rooms are examined in terms of how they would have been then, and how that look can be recreated now by using a combination of contemporary artefacts and modern reproduction furniture and fittings. Taking into account the requirements of the modern-day home, this book offers both practical advice and inspiration which will enable you to strike your own balance between Victorian style and twentieth-century living.
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"Packed with information on every aspect of the Victorian house, this is a book which can be read for pleasure and referred to time and time again. Ideal Home
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Linda Osband has edited many books on a wide range of non-fiction subjects, including her compilated anthology of Victorian travellers.
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Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 to 1901, an era in which great social and technological changes occurred, many of which had profound effects on the architectural development of the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Morris, Art Nouveau, Queen Anne Revival, Robert Kerr, Gothic Revival, High Victorian, Charles Eastlake, The Gentleman's House, Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition, Philip Webb, Household Taste, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Old English, Victorian Gothic New!
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Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 to 1901, an era in which great social and technological changes occurred, many of which had profound effects on the architectural development of the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Morris, Art Nouveau, Queen Anne Revival, Robert Kerr, Gothic Revival, High Victorian, Charles Eastlake, The Gentleman's House, Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition, Philip Webb, Household Taste, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Old English, Victorian Gothic New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Stones Of Venice by John Ruskin on page 10, and page 23
- Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (Oxford World's Classics) by Isabella Beeton on page 108, and Back Matter
- Crystal Palace (Architecture in Detail) by Joseph Paxton in Front Matter, and page 176
- New Mexico (His The New enchantment of America) by John Allan Carpenter in Back Matter
- New Jersey (Enchantment Amer) by John Allan Carpenter in Back Matter
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