The Victorian Society Book Of The Victorian House

Author : Kit Wedd,Victorian Society
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056488706

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The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House by Kit Wedd,Victorian Society Pdf

The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House covers every facet of building and decoration—from roofs, brickwork, and chimneys to paint effects, curtains, and floor coverings. It abounds with information on the development of Victorian domestic architecture, building methods, and materials, and offers a wealth of practical and authoritative advice on restoration, maintenance, and preservation. Throughout, the emphasis is on family houses of various sizes and styles, with particular emphasis on finding ways in which period authenticity can be combined with modern standards and convenience of lifestyle. Kit Wedd is a former deputy director of Britain’s Victorian Society. She currently works as a freelance editor and writer specializing in the conservation of historic buildings and interiors.

Author : Helen C. Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780750648486

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Victorian Houses and Their Details by Helen C. Long Pdf

'Victorian Houses' presents the architectural detailing of the time in the context of the era - providing a comprehensive understanding of its architecture and design. Pattern books played a vital role in the dissemination of taste between architect, builder and client in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. By focusing on the contribution of the pattern book to the architecture of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the various trends of the time are documented. The types of publications and other sources of taste available at different points over this period reflected social and economic factors, such as the changing demand or changes in organisation of manufacturing and retail. * Gain a comprehensive understanding of Victorian architecture from an experienced author * 160 pages of illustrations and an accessible writing style make this an excellent reference source * Discover invaluable information on the role of architectural pattern books in victorian design

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0393327639

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Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Pdf

Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Linda Osband
Publisher : Northlight
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0715313193

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Victorian House Style by Linda Osband Pdf

Focuses mainly on the details associated with the victorian period in England. Linda Osband uses an even mix of beautiful photographs and detailed sketches to illustrate the many design elements of the period. She includes a list of suppliers in the U.K., USA, Australia, France and Germany for those wishing to restore their current home.

Author : Linda Osband
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0715327054

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Victorian House Style Sourcebook by Linda Osband Pdf

Features images of original and well restored Victorian features. This book contains a room-by-room tour of Victorian homes, covering everything from grand opulence to modest dwellings. It is illustrated throughout, with design details such as close-ups of fabrics and wallpaper.|This is a pocket source book bursting with images of original and well restored Victorian features. This is the ideal handy reference for the home owner, either to take to the architectural salvage yard or DIY store to identify authentic styles and colours, or simply to dip into to enjoy the best of Victorian design. It contains a room-by-room tour of Victorian homes, covering everything from grand opulence to modest dwellings. It is beautifully illustrated throughout, with design details such as close-ups of fabrics and wallpaper.

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958346

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How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

Author : Laura Wilson
Publisher : Preservation Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002330013

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Daily Life in a Victorian House by Laura Wilson Pdf

Presents photographs and sketches and explanations of life in a particular London house during the 19th century and includes a list of houses and museums which offer displays on aspects of Victorian life.

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026614151

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The Victorian House by Judith Flanders Pdf

A middle class home, circa 1850, of the sort that many people live in today, is the focus of Judith Flanders' book. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300034725

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The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard Pdf

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible

Author : Robin Guild,Vernon Gibberd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 0283995246

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The Complete Victorian House Book by Robin Guild,Vernon Gibberd Pdf

Author : John Woolf
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789290363

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The Wonders by John Woolf Pdf

The untold story of the Victorian freak show and circus, and the remarkable cast of characters who performed in them.

Author : Kathryn Ferry
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0747807485

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The Victorian Home by Kathryn Ferry Pdf

The nineteenth century saw huge changes in design and technology, with middle-class homes seeing drastic changes from the time of Queen Victoria's accesion in 1837 to her death in 1901. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, thanks to industrialized mass production, people were empowered to make 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 testing the best from the past. This meant that families could choose to live in an Italianate villa, a semi-detached Gothic or a Queen Anne terraced home. The changes implemented during the Victorian era resulted in a brand of interior design and asthetic still relevant and appreciated today.

Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300081642

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The Holland Park Circle by Caroline Dakers Pdf

This book - the first major study of the Holland Park Circle of artists, architects, and their patrons - is both an engrossing narrative of their lives, works and influence and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kit Wedd
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0747810958

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Victorian Housebuilding by Kit Wedd Pdf

The Victorian suburbs that are such familiar elements of the British townscape were once building sites where armies of anonymous workmen converged to cover open land with streets of modest but comfortable houses. Despite their large scale and uniform appearance, most developments were built a few houses at a time by small firms operating on the narrowest of profit margins. Everyone on the building site had his place in the hierarchy of trades and the sequence of work, and each craftsman guarded his own tools and trade secrets, his only means of surviving in work that was dirty, strenuous and sometimes downright dangerous. In this lively investigation of the nineteenth-century building industry, Kit Wedd celebrates the achievement of the men who, plot by plot, translated surveyors' drawings and piles of bricks into streets of dwellings that are as desirable today as when they first appeared.

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0393052095

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Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Pdf

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.