Victorian Home: The Grandeur And Comfort Of The Victorian Era, In Households Past And Present
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0762409150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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I. D. Barbosa said Nice Book. I enjoyed looking at the Victorian elegance and reading this book. It is a very nice book for the coffee table.. Just What I Wanted I live in a Victorian Home. Although I want the comforts of today, I also want the ambiance to the Victorian era. I got the book hoping it would give me ideas for adding touches that are definitely Victorian. I looked at many books on the internet before buying this book. This is one I needed.. Annette M. Hutchins said Wonderful!. This book is loaded with color photographs! I went through this book several times before putting it back down. It's a must have if you are trying to get decorating ideas for a victorian room.
This stunning edition covers architecture, furniture, linens, table settings, and other aspects of the decorative period which continues to inspire and delight.
The rooms shown here are delightfully unfussy, instead warm and inviting--the polished wood gleams, the Persian carpets glow with faded splendor, and the view from the white wicker-furnished veranda goes on for miles. There's plenty of interesting reading here for a social-history buff, lots of interiors to delivately swoon over (such as the dining room with "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today" stenciled on the walls), and a large section of tips for adding Victorian style to a modern home without compromising its integrity. The text explains how the Victorian era fostered several style reforms: the midcentury Gothic and rococo revivals, the aesthetic movement of the 1880s, and Art Nouveau. "Victorian" may mean