商品簡介
The nineteenth century saw huge changes in design, technology and taste, so that by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, the middle-class home looked very different from the way it had at her accession in 1837. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, thanks to industrialised mass production, people were empowered to make new choices about how to decorate their homes. Numerous exterior and interior styles were available as Victorian architects and designers grappled towards a new decorative language by reference to the best of the past. Families could choose to live in an Italianate villa, a semi-detached Gothic Revival house, or a Queen Anne terrace. From the 1870s, the Arts and Crafts Movement rejected consumption for consumption's sake and gave us a brand of interior design still relevant and appreciated today.
作者簡介
Kathryn Ferry is a freelance historian, writer and lecturer. After studying arihitectural history at Cambridge University she went on to work for the Victorian Society, the national charity campaigning for the preservation of nineteenth century buildings. Her other books for Shire include Reach Huts and Bathing Machines and The British Seaside Holiday.
