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  2. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    A bare room was considered to be in poor taste, so every surface was filled with objects that reflected the owner's interests and aspirations. The parlour was the most important room in a home and was the showcase for the homeowners where guests were entertained. The dining room was the second-most important room in the house.

  3. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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    The entry to the living rooms are double pocket doors and the living room ceiling is surrounded with box molding and underneath it, a picture rail. The floor is a carpeted hardwood floor with a plain 12-inch baseboard and all other rooms contain the same floor and ceiling finishes with a few variations in the walls.

  4. The Decoration of Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue ...

  5. Edwardian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Belfast City Hall, an example of Edwardian Baroque architecture or "Wrenaissance", in Northern Ireland. Edwardian architecture usually refers to a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular for public buildings in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to 1914 is commonly included in this style. [1]

  6. Anglo-Japanese style - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Japanese style developed in the United Kingdom through the Victorian era and early Edwardian era from approximately 1851 to the 1910s, when a new appreciation for Japanese design and culture influenced how designers and craftspeople made British art, especially the decorative arts and architecture of England, covering a vast array of art objects including ceramics, furniture and ...

  7. Olveston (house) - Wikipedia

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    The dining room contains a Chippendale-style single pedestal table, for informal dining, and Hepplewhite design chairs. There is a 1760 French ormolu lantern clock , four 'spectacular' William IV silver candlesticks and an oak overmantel to the fireplace with carved figures which may date from the late 16th century.

  8. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    Even of the ceilings conformed to the carved style. There are few grander effects in interior decoration than the intersecting curves and angles of a lofty old Elizabethan ceiling. Of course, in the use of the strap and shield, heraldry and its escutcheons and crests entered largely into the ornament of the Elizabethan.

  9. Victorian house - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian era, together with the Edwardian era was the last sustained period in which great houses were built in large numbers. [6] Many of these harked back to earlier periods of English architecture, for example: Waddesdon Manor in Renaissance Revival style; Highclere Castle in Tudorbethan style (link says it's actually Jacobethan)

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