Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details

Abstract

1883.

The evolution of wallpaper interior design schemes in a commercial setting: the interiors of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (Midland Grand Hotel), London 1870s–1980s

“…This relates to a hanging style where the wall was divided into three sections-dado, filling and frieze, introduced by Owen Jones in The Grammar of Ornament (1856), 64 and popularized by Charles Eastlake in his 1868 book, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details. 65 Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. used this style for the Green Dining Room at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 1867, and it is still viewable today in the Morris Room. 66 By the late 1870s this style was widely utilised, with manufacturers producing full sets with complementary designs for each area.…”

“Art Furniture in the Old English Style” The Firm of Collinson and Lock, London, 1870–1900

“…This is in violation of the rules of good breeding.-Ed." 39 These thoughts were picked up by the English trade press: "We have had a surfeit of 'Early English' lately, with its everlasting turned balusters, bits of bevelled glass, art tiles and the rest. 'I know,' the writer adds, 'it is rank heresy to say a word against the soi-disant "art furniture."…”