Victorian furniture styles
This page describes various different Victorian styles of furniture. The styles vary and include Japanese designs, medieval and tudor and designs from Liberty & Co.
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The Story of Alma-Tadema and the Epps Family
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a talented furniture designer and a leading Victorian painter. He worked on this screen with his pupil, Laura Epps.
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William Burges's washstand
William Burges designed this washstand in 1880. He designed it for his guest bedroom and the washstand reflects Burges's characteristic mix of scholarly sources and playful…
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Audio: The Story of the Judgement of Paris
Designers frequently used Classical literature as a source for designs and cabinets offered plenty of scope for symbolic decoration. The Greek godess Juno appears in the ce…
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Installing the Leistler bookcase
The massive Leistler bookcase is the centrepiece of Room 101. It was previously in another room - presenting Museum staff with the challenge of dismantling and reinstalling…
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Furniture timbers
Wood and metal are usually regarded as highly compatible materials. However, interactions between certain metals and woods can take place under adverse conditions, or as a…
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William Beckford's Treasure Chest
This coffer-shaped cabinet is the only known survivor of an original set of four, made for William Beckford (1760-1844) at Lansdown Tower, Bath, to show off some of his mos…
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Made for exhibition
Most of the things made around the middle of the century in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections are of `exhibition quality'. They are the crowning achievement of m…
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The Victorians and Edwardians at War (Paperback)
By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie' was already firmly embedded in the Victor…
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