Learn how Palladianism combined classically symmetrical exteriors with lavish interiors and went on to gain huge popularity with renowned architects in England in the 18th century.

English interiors of the mid-eighteenth century show the eclectic tastes of their inhabitants. For example, the dining room at Kirtlington Park (32.53.1) integrates a Neo-Palladian wall scheme …

2011年11月2日 · The arts and interior design styles of the British Georgian era were loved and adopted by the elites, well-travelled, and affluent 18th-century Americans. By 1720, Georgian …

2024年3月7日 · Borrowing from the most fashionable aspects of the period, Colonial interior design brings the warmth and elegance of 18th-century schemes to the modern home. The …

In Fragments on the Theory of Landscape Gardening, the 18th century landscape gardener Humphry Repton shows the difference between the older style drawing room in the top image …

2016年3月3日 · For her 18th-century country house in Wales, designer Penny Morrison created a playful, personal melange of patterns — including quintessentially British chintz-covered sofas. …

2015年3月9日 · The 18th century saw a grand progression of styles in country house interiors. Experiments in the Continental Baroque championed by Vanbrugh and Gibbs were eclipsed in …

2014年9月1日 · 400 years of history… in one single room. The Geffrye Museum in London has reconstructed the British middle class’ living rooms from the 17th to the 20th century, in a …

2024年9月11日 · The starting points for the living room in this 18th-century Hampshire manor house were the curtains crafted in Lewis & Wood’s Benaki print in Mulberry Blue. On top of …

2017年8月10日 · In the early part of the century, men who had worked on the Palazzo Reale in Turin and the Upper Belvedere in Vienna brought sculptural stuccowork of the highest quality …