History: 19th Century Interiors

Great Exhibition

A 19th century exhibit of finest product in art and industry

Joseph Paxton

Architect of Crystal palace

Victorian Period

During this period, the design and layout of houses exhibits of finest product in art and industry

Victorian Period

This period is characterized by extroverted and exhibitionistic moods, grand scale, ornamentation, and dark rooms filled with furniture and layered patterns

Victorian Period

During this period, furniture were machine made, in an exaggerated classical style, massive, heavy with proportions, and in lacquer / paint or gilded finish

Carpenter gothic

A term applied to the vernacular adaptation of the Gothic Revival Style

Carpenter gothic

A style that is characterized by board and batten siding, pointed arch forms and leaded windows with colorful stained glass

Italianate

Designs using low-sloping hipped roofs, porches, and loggias with columns, bracketed roof, and cornices, and often with a tower.

Queen Anne revival

Late Victorian design that used sophisticated application of ornamental detail

John Ruskin

Known during the Arts and Crafts period, he advocated return to medieval Gothic practice

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

A book by John Ruskin, where he denounced design of industrially produced objects: excessive and ugly ornamentation was to be banished

William Morris

Best known and most influential during the Arts and Crafts period

William Morris

He sought to create interiors and furnishings that would recapture the charm and personality that had been lost to industrialization

Arts and Crafts

This period is described by Morris as "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"

Arts and Crafts

This period had interiors that were studiously unpretentious and carefully avoids the suggestion of having been designed for aesthetics alone

Inglenook

Recess fireplace opening with cushioned benches framing a fireplace opening

Arts and Crafts

This period is characterized by modest scales, muddy but rich colors, unpretentious moods, naturalistic ornaments, allover prints, stylized birds and flowers, and medieval forms

Art Nouveau

It means "Modern Style"

Liberty Style

Art Nouveau in England

Jugendstil

Art Nouveau in Germany

Sezessionstil

Art Nouveau in Austria

Stil Floreale

Art Nouveau in Italy

Modernismo

Art Nouveau in Spain

Art Nouveau

A style that was characterized by writhing plant forms and an opposition to the historicism which had influenced the 19th century

Atelier of Victor Horta

This building was recognized by UNESCO as representing the highest expression of the influential Art Nouveau style in art and architecture.

Tassel House

The famous house in Brussel designed by Victor Horta in Art Nouveau style

Hector Guimard

Designer of Entrance to the Metro

Antonio Gaudi

Architect of Casa Mila

Gustav Klimt

Painter of The Kiss