Historicism
Older styles in a new edition: Gothic Revival, Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Rococo, often made in factories.
In the nineteenth century forms were borrowed from all earlier styles. The dining room might be Neo-Renaissance, the drawing room Neo-Rococo and the church Gothic Revival.
Industry made it possible to produce ornament cheaply. Criticism of the overloaded rooms led to both Arts and Crafts and modernism.
Dark oak and walnut, richly carved
Styles from different periods mixed in the same room
Heavy drapery and upholstered furniture
Machine-carved ornament that looks handmade
- Moderator lamp
- Parian ware figure
- Wallpaper for the Houses of Parliament
- Black Forest cuckoo clock
- Oxford shoe
- Minton Victorian majolica
- Chelsea boot
- Guerlain’s bee bottle
- Sofa by John Henry Belter
- Crinoline
- Louis Vuitton’s flat trunk
- Archaeological brooch by Castellani
- Gladstone bag
- Mourning jewellery
- Michaux velocipede
- Pendant by Carlo Giuliano
- Ariel high-wheeler
- Bustle dress
- Sholes & Glidden
- Wingfield’s tennis set
- Worth gown
- Giverny
- Fabergé egg
- Louis Vuitton’s Damier canvas
- Bal au Moulin Rouge
- Herreshoff 12½