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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.
Manufacturers in the United States used the drawings and ideas in the book to create mass-produced Eastlake Style or Cottage furniture. The geometric ornaments, spindles, low relief carvings, and incised lines were designed to be affordable and easy to clean; [1] nevertheless, many of the designs which resulted are artistically complex.
The Victorian Society is a membership charity which campaigns for Victorian architecture. In the United States, Victorian house styles include Second Empire , Queen Anne , Stick (and Eastlake Stick ), Shingle , Richardsonian Romanesque , and others.
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...
Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. [1] Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construction but embellished with decorative trim. [ 2 ]
The former House and School of Industry at 120 West 16th Street in New York City Simon C. Sherwood House (1884), Southport, Connecticut. The British 19th-century Queen Anne style that had been formulated there by Norman Shaw and other architects arrived in New York City with the new housing for the New York House and School of Industry [3] at 120 West 16th Street (designed by Sidney V ...
Norman Shaw Buildings, Victoria Embankment, Westminster.North Building, 1887 (right); South Building, 1902 (left) British Queen Anne Revival architecture, also known as Domestic Revival, [1] is a style of building using red brick, white woodwork, and an eclectic mixture of decorative features, that became popular in the 1870s, both for houses and for larger buildings such as offices, hotels ...
Antique arm chair drawn by Charles Eastlake, whose 1868 book on furniture became influential in Britain and the United States. Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March 1836 – 20 November 1906) was a British architect and furniture designer.