Victorian designs for the home
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Victorian designs for the home
Classmark: Bedford Collection A465
Creator(s): Newton, Charles
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: V & A Publications
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1999
Language: English
Size and medium: 144 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730900
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019916377005181
Description
Introduction -- Persistence and change -- Early design reformers -- Reformed Gothic -- Mainstream Victorian -- Exoticism and eclecticism -- William Morris and his circle -- Aestheticism and Japonisme -- Arts and crafts -- The origins of Art Nouveau.
"During the years of Victoria's reign (1837-1901) a wealth of diverse and innovative design was produced, characterised by conflicting desires for tradition and progress. This book reveals the rich variety of styles which emerged, such as revivals of Gothic and Rococo, a new fascination with the East in Japonisme, and the appearance of Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Elaborate designs for furniture by A.W.N. Pugin and William Burges, for example, or ceramics and silver by William de Morgan and Philip Webb, are seen alongside actual pieces as they were eventually created."
"The designs are for the home - from furniture and tableware to wallpapers, textiles and tiles - and they combine to build a picture of Victorian taste and style which will be an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the period."--Jacket.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A465: Contains photocopied loose by review by Martin P. Levy (source unspecified)
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A465: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ST/33.
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