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Sunday, 24 June 2007
VICTORIAN VIEW OF THE HOUSE OF THE FUTURE
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The house of the 20th c. as described by a visionary of the 19th The Twentieth-Century Dwelling The typical dwelling of the twentieth centu...
MISCELLENY
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INTERIORS A well equipped Victorian kitchen should have a pot board or shelf between the legs of the table. Often equipment also hung on r...
THE SERVANT'S QUARTERS
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Servant's quarters were generally overlooked in decorating and homemaking books. Ella Rodman Church was unusual in that she devoted a wh...
THE PARLOR AND DRAWING ROOM, CIRCA 1880
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"The comedy was that so many of these rooms were alike"... A.E.Richardson Who can not recall the huge, towering bouquets of dried ...
Sunday, 17 June 2007
A couple of books
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Two books that I have recently read that have wonderful pictures are: Authentic Décor, the domestic interior 1620-1920 by Peter Thornton and...
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
THE DINING ROOM circa 1880
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WALLS Some Americans called the dining room the “eating room”. Ella Rodman Church wrote, “The common practice of furnishing dining-rooms in ...
Sunday, 4 March 2007
THE FRONT HALL circa 1880
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The information in this section is culled from two books, one British the other American, published in 1880 and 1882. Both were very similar...
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