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Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 – June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era.He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago-based architect Louis Sullivan.
Utility Furniture - The 1943 Utility Furniture Catalogue with an explanation of Britain's Second World War Utility Furniture Scheme. ISBN 978-0-9552723-2-5. Reimer, Suzanne; Pinch, Philip (January 2013). "Geographies of the British government's wartime Utility furniture scheme, 1940–1945". Journal of Historical Geography (39): 99– 112.
The 1886 Carson Mansion in Eureka, California, is widely considered to have achieved the height of the Queen Anne Victorian style. Following the American Civil War and through the turn of the 20th century, a number of related styles, trends, and movements emerged, are loosely and broadly categorized as "Victorian," due to their correspondence ...
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]
It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one of the first American firms to provide complete interior decoration services. With their own design office and cabinet-making and upholstery workshops, Herter Brothers could provide every aspect of interior furnishing—including decorative paneling ...
Moving from early Gothic and Grecian styles towards the Rococo style popular in American furniture markets in the 1850s, Day developed his own stylistic method that scholars today have termed his Exuberant Style. [18]: 118 In the Exuberant Style, Day took basic Rococo designs and added his favorite motifs to create unique pieces. This style is ...
The design movement had an extremely positive impact on the craftsmanship and quality of British furniture. [7] The William and Mary style was a transitional style between Mannerist and Queen Anne furniture. [4] The William and Mary style was very popular in Britain from 1700 to 1725, [1] and in America until about 1735. [3]
Nicknamed "Old State. War and Navy", it is one of the most famous, prominent and largest examples of Second Empire architecture in the United States and the world. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada is an architectural style that was popular in both nations in the late 19th century between 1865 and 1900.