Victorian & Edwardian Period Architecture, Decorating - General & Miscellaneous, Landscape Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Europe - British Architecture

Victorian House Style

Name: Victorian House Style
Author: Linda Osband
ISBN: 9780715398418

by Linda Osband

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Overview

"A wealth of color photographs of exteriors and interiors, catalog reproductions, and some well-written explanatory text combine to give...[this] handsome hard-cover volume a full picture of the Victorian home....A well-illustrated reference work...a plethora of ideas."—Victorian Homes. 192 pages (88 in color), 400 b/w illus., 9 X 10 1/4.

Synopsis

Color photos, catalogue reproductions and an information-filled history detail every aspect of 19th-century Victorian style, as it lives today amid 20th-century convenience. Dramatic exterior details -- chess-piece chimneys, columned porches with wrought-iron Art Nouveau canopies.