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Lunchtime Lectures: London’s Lost Victorian Interiors - domestic interior design, 1880-1914
This event is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.
Interior design is one of the most fragile and fugitive of art forms. London always had the best and most fashionable of everything - and the upper and middle classes regarded their homes as means of self-expression, as well as stages for smart entertaining.
Many families had their homes photographed, which is as well, because the great majority of these interiors are indeed ‘lost’, whether through demolition, gutting and conversion, or redecoration. Cultural historian Steven Brindle takes us through a selection of lost interiors from the late Victorian and Edwardian age, with a remarkable stylistic range. They are a window into a lost world.
Steven Brindle is a freelance historian and writer. He worked for English Heritage for many years, as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and historian. He has published extensively on the history of architecture and engineering, with notable titles including Windsor Castle, a Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (2018, as editor), Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530-1830. (2023), and London - Lost Interiors (Atlantic Publishing, 2024).
Steven Brindle is a freelance historian and writer. He worked for English Heritage for many years, as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and historian. He has published extensively on the history of architecture and engineering, with notable titles including Windsor Castle, a Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (2018, as editor), Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530-1830. (2023), and London - Lost Interiors (Atlantic Publishing, 2024).
