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Decorate in Victorian Style
The Victorian Era of England was a period of elegance and artistic style. During this period, the country went through remarkable social, political, literary and religious reformations. This time period is named during the reign of Queen Victoria, which lasted from 1837 to 1901. Victorian style living was one of the most upheld fashions of all time. Most importantly, in modern days, Victorian interior designing has been given a striking significance. The Victorian era incorporated influences from many different cultures to develop decorative arts. What is notable about Victorian interior designing is that it gave priority toorder and excessive ornaments.There was aclear division between public and private spacein a home. The rooms were neatly divided into drawing room, parlour, kitchen quarters, and halls and so on. Sometimes a bedroom was separated into two by a door.
Victorian furniture were designed with styles from many periods including Gothic, Elizabethan, Tudor, Rocco and neo-classical. Gothic and Rocco designs were more popular. The culture during this period reflected proper manners and well-regulated lives. Thus, the characteristics of furniture were also grandeur and sophisticated. Furniture were elaborately carved, ornamented and generally had a dark finish. Chairs were upholstered, had large puffy cushions, and mostly regal looking. Wood was the main element of all furniture and metal was used only in small proportions. Dark wood with a reddish tint and deep brown hues was mostly used due to the gothic influences. Dark mahogany, black walnut, rosewood, bog oak, ash and maple were popular choices of wood.
Most furniture belonging to this period was large and intricately carved. The carvings were usually natural designs such as leaves, flowers and animals. These pieces have curves, angular lines, decorative friezes and curved mouldings. Upholstery usually had rich and textured material like velvet. The colours were usually dark. Almost all upholstered furniture had tassels, fringes and embellishments. Curved ‘serpentine’ seats, three seater sofas, pedestal games tables, console tables, wooden wine coolers, Kidney desks, side cabinets and sewing tables are some of the Victorian antique furniture to decorate our homes with. The significant classy look of this furniture made them popular outside England too. It spread to other European countries and even United States.
Ornamental glass work, vintage furniture and sterling silver are some other works of décor belonging to the Victorian era. Authentic Victorian furniture can give an appealing and a great value to a house. If you are an art lover, a collector or just 19th century fashionable, these furniture and home decors can transport you to an age that valued sophistication and style.
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Victorian antique furniture holds a great historic value. There is a wide range of Victorian antique furniture at Ronald Phillips store.
Victorian wheelwright restores wooden wheel
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Pair Victorian Brass Candlesticks Wood base ca. 1890′s $65.00 |
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VICTORIAN WOOD CABINET W/HAND PAINTED DESIGN–DISCOUNT $129.95 |
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VTG PRIMITIVE VICTORIAN LITHO FOX HUNT TOY LRG WOOD BLOCKS BEAGLE DOG HORSES $20.50 |
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Antique Wood & Velvet TRINKET JEWELRY BOX w/ HEART SHAPE DECAL 2 VICTORIAN WOMEN $9.99 |
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN LADY CARVED ORNATE WOOD PERIOD FRAME $299.99 |
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A Thrilling HALLOWEEN Vintage Classic Victorian Postcard Style Wood Sign $5.99 |
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN STRONG BOX WOOD SAFE $40.00 |
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Victorian Wood & Brass Tear Drop Pulls – 2 Match,1 Diff $10.49 |
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Antique Victorian (2) Wood Plaques $25.00 |
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VINTAGE VICTORIAN STYLED HANDPAINTED WOOD SHELF 15″X10 $35.99 |
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vintage VICTORIAN era DOOR BELL RINGER — wood and porcelain — NICE CONDITION $12.00 |
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ANTIQUE TRIMMED SOLID WOOD GLASS WINDOW VICTORIAN DOOR $175.00 |
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Vintage victorian hall tree wood pegs 1800′s $14.99 |
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Victorian Wood/Celluloid Antique Cherub Decorative Box $85.00 |
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN WOOD GESSO PICTURE PAIR WINTER SCENE $249.95 |
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19th ANTIQUE VICTORIAN WOOD EARLY WOODEN JEWELRY BOX $225.00 |
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Walter A Wood Victorian Trade Card Rochester NY $15.00 |
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HANDPAINTED WOOD VICTORIAN LADIES DRESS PICTURE FRAME $12.95 |
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN DOUBLE BEER TAPS WITH ORG WOOD BOX $99.99 |
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Victorian Wood Cabinet $79.95 |
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Wood Upholstered Victorian Living Room or Parlor Furniture by Concord Lot of 4 $4.99 |
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Wood Magnet~ Girl~Victorian~Vintage Photo Print~79 $3.75 |
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30X40 VICTORIAN CHERRY WOOD GALLERY ART OR OIL FRAME $399.00 |
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Wood Accent Bench w/Dark Leather Cushion Seat Victorian $149.95 |
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Victorian Street (Victorian Life) By Richard Wood $1.99 |
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NIB San Franciscan Victorian Mansion Wood Dollhouse Kit $82.00 |
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VICTORIAN TRADE CARD CARTHAGE NEW YORK J WOOD STORE NY $9.99 |
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antique wood arm chair, victorian gothic ? needs work $3.33 |
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN GESSO ON WOOD 18″ X 20″ PICTURE FRAME $15.95 |
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Victorian Style Wood Birdhouse Yellow Garden Yard NEW $21.95 |
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Winsome® Storage Bench with Baskets $125.97 Winsome Storage Bench with Baskets welcome you home! A beautiful entryway idea, this Storage Bench and baskets give you a way to keep shoes, hats, scarves and mittens in one place! Built with sturdy beechwood and finished with an antique walnut stain. Comes with 3 espresso-colored wicker storage baskets that fit perfectly underneath the wide-open storage space. Bench dimensions: 14 x 40 x 22″. Bas… |
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Winsome Wood Step Stool, Antique Walnut $40.94 Everyone needs a step up, and now you can too! With this classy, stylish Antique Walnut Finish Step Stool, you’ll have the tools you need to take things to the next level. Powerfully built from composite woods, this tough customer is eye-catching and durable. Its handy step folds in out out for your convenience. Order today and step up to value! Weighs 10 pounds. Ass… |
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Queen Anne Style Cherry Finish Wood Vanity Set – Table, Bench & Mirror $184.00 This beautiful vanity set features a spacious table top, a tri-fold adjustable mirror, a drawer, and a matching padded stool. It measures 32″ Wide X 16″ Deep X 51″ High. Very easy assembly required only to attach the mirror and legs of the vanity and stool…. |
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Victoria & Albert $9.22 Recasting history as a particularly lavish soap opera, Victoria and Albert sets the story of the relationship between the queen and her consort against a background of family strife and political wrangling. Sticklers for accuracy might be disappointed, but the strong cast and lavish production values make for an entertaining film. Victoria is barely 18 when her uncle King William IV dies. She is … |
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Fairy Tale – A True Story $9.98 When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom the topic of fairies is forbidden. Immediately, the girls discover the winged creatures in the garden and photograph them for Frances’s startled parents. This leads to another kind of adventure for the girls. They become… |
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Cranford $23.44 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/20/2008 Run time: 295 minutes Rating: Nr… |
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Victorian Blend Black Ceylon Blend Orange Pekoe Tea, 25 Bags in Decorative Wood Crate $6.50 … |
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Attic Cherry Antique Cherry Bed Steps $99.99 Graceful country styling. “Antique Cherry” finish with subtle distressed surfaces include fly spec, cow tail, and rasp surfaces. There are two steps to the top. Top step includes hidden drawer. Solid wood Queen Anne legs with small bun foot. Panels and skirts are MDF with select hardwood veneers. Some assembly required…. |
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A Woodworking Scroll Saw Patterns and Instructions Plan to Build Your Own Victorian Barbie Doll House Project $23.95 **Your purchase does not include the actual pre-built project. It is not a ready-to-assemble kit. **A FREE sheet of 18 x 24 inch tracing paper (carbon paper) INCLUDED! Finished Dimensions: Barbie houses are not very co… |
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Victorian Walking Stick Heavy Antique Carnival Glass Knob Cane $23.99 Victorian Walking Stick Heavy Antique Carnival Glass Knob Cane is a beautiful clear cut glass walking stick with a clear cut glass handle. The shaft of the cane is made from a beautiful dark solid wood for strength, a non-slip rubber tip, and brass accents for added style. The glass handle feels good and sturdy in your hand, and the rubber tip helps keep you from falling on smooth floors. Victoria… |
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Victorian – Wood Cabinet $162.71 Victorian wood cabinet… |
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Victorian Wood and Turquoise Ring $225 Victorian wood and turquoise ring combines the craftsmanship of turned wood with gorgeous stones, for a naturally beautiful design you won’t find anywhere else. The silver, gold and cubic zirconia accents are perfectly set off by a pop of bright color from the center turquoise stone. This ring is fit for a medieval princess. |
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Victorian Wood and Emerald Ring $225 Enchant your admirers with the Victorian wood and emerald ring. A brilliantly green cut emerald looks straight out from a sea of swirling cubic zirconia, set in silver and gold old world design. The body of the ring is a warm hardwood, for an unusual, timeless, gorgeous look. |
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Victorian Wood and Pearl Ring $225 The Victorian wood and pearl ring could have come straight out of a medieval fairytale. Cubic zirconia swirl about silver and gold accents, perfectly finished with a luminous pearl in the very center. It’s an enchanting element to add to any outfit. |
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Victorian Wood Dollhouse $188.99 Elegant Victorian style has never been so affordable! No detail has been overlooked in the design of this easily assembled Wooden Victorian Dollhouse by Melissa & Doug. Excellent quality and distinctive detailing throughout the interior and exterior of this house will make it an heirloom to be cherished for years to come! |
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Victorian Dollhouse $295 Sturdy wood construction and easy assembly of this Grand Victorian will delight and entertain children for hours. Features three floors, six spacious room, oversize attic, inviting balconies, two pair of swinging french doors and two spiral staircases. |
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Woodstock Victorian Garden Chime $74.99 This chime echoes the lavish ironwork that decorates many Victorian buildings and gardens. The Victorian Era was all about romanticism. Dramatic colors, varied textures and sensuous carvings in wood and metal were the hallmark of the day. The Victorian Garden Chime is our tribute to a time when craftsmen created lavish ironwork art, which decorated buildings and gardens. The long tubes create the effect of distant church bells, which were an important part of everyday life during the Victorian period. Features: Cast iron, aluminum and ash wood construction Antiqued gray powder-coated cast iron 4 silver anodized-aluminum tubes Victorian-style ornate hanger and heart-shaped sail Lifetime tuning guarantee Item Specifications: Materials: Antiqued gray powder-coated cast iron, ash wood, four satin silver anodized aluminum tubes Overall length: 54.5″ Sound: Listen |
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Victorian Ornamental Carpentry $11.66 The focus of this handsome photographic study is sawn-wood ornamentation — the “gingerbread” of Victorian houses. The brilliance and variability of these sculptures are here preserved in 186 sharp, detailed photographs of handsawed architectural emb |
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Victorian Shelf $177 This classic shelf is inspired by eighteenth century European design. It is crafted of a resin/wood composite in an antique gold finish. Please note that the top of the shelf features a plate groove. |
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Group of Victorian Children on a Makeshift See-Saw Fashioned from a Tree Trunk and a Plank of Wood $49.99 Group of Victorian Children on a Makeshift See-Saw Fashioned from a Tree Trunk and a Plank of Wood – Giclee Print |
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Guidecraft Victorian Dollhouse $224.95 The Victorian-era design of this grand Victorian Dollhouse from Guidecraft will delight and entertain your children for hours at a time. This architectural beauty features three floors, six spacious rooms, an oversized attic, inviting balconies, two pairs of swinging french doors and two spiral staircases! A true feast for the eyes and the imagination, Guidecraft’s Victorian beauty features sturdy wooden construction and easy assembly to meet the demands of schools and daycare centers. The spire and roof assembly are even designed to ”break away” if a child falls into them, and easily reattach! The wood panels can be stained or painted for personalization. |
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Full / Queen Size Headboard Solid Wood Victorian Style in Oak $199.47 Dimension: 62.5"W x 2.5"D x 43.5"H Finish: Oak Material: Solid Wood Full Queen Size Headboard Solid Wood Victorian Style in Pine This beautiful Victorian style headboard features oak finish. Item is perfect for a full or queen size bed. Providing your bedroom a traditional and classic Victorian atmosphere. This sturdy headboard is made of solid wood with classic design. Sure to bring you sweet dreams and style at your bedroom. No assembly required. |
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Guidecraft 98061 Victorian Dollhouse $210 Sturdy wood construction and easy assembly of this Grand Victorian doll house will delight and entertain children for hours. This architectural beauty features three floors, six spacious rooms, oversize attic, inviting balconies, two pair of swinging door |
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Victorian Doll House $210 Sturdy wood construction and easy assembly of this Grand Victorian will delight and entertain children for hours. Features three floors, six spacious room, oversize attic, inviting balconies, two pair of swinging French doors and two spiral staircases. 28 x 13.5 x 38 |
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Popular Victorian Women Writers $23.7 This book considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and El |
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Walnut jewelry box, ‘Victorian Bouquet’ $97.95 Delicately sculpted by hand, a Victorian bouquet graces this box by M. Ayub. He crafts the piece with upper and lower compartments lined in velvet, and a side compartment organizes rings. Ayub works in prized walnut wood, polished with an agate stone and wax. Its color is the natural tone of the wood. |
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A Victorian Sunday: Victorian Sunday $14.21 A Victorian Sunday: Victorian Sunday |
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Twin Headboard, Victorian Oak Finish $139 Twin headboard, Victorian Oak Finish aimed at providing your bedroom that unforgettable Victorian era atmosphere. Made from solid wood, the iconic artistry displayed in this traditional style furniture is sure to delight every womans fancy; even men would appreciate it on their own bedrooms. The elite and smooth finish of this elegant traditional furniture design of a twin headboard will certainly leave you sweet dreams and sleeping like royalty at a price that is truly affordable. This classic bedroom furniture is sure to complete that famous Victorian era look with this cheap traditional furniture even Queen Victoria herself would love to have. |
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Victorian Dollhouse – by Guidecraft – G98061 $210 This sturdy wood rendition of the timeless Grand Victorian home is now the perfect dollhouse for your little girl. Three floors, six spacious rooms, an oversized attic, inviting balconies, two pairs of French swinging doors and two spiral staircases create an amazingly realistic environment for your child to play, create and let her imagination run wild. Rubberwood construction. This item ships directly from the manufacturer. Product usually arrives in 4-10 business days, depending on destination, including order processing and shipping. APO/FPO shipping unavailable |
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Victorian Ornamental Carpentry: 186 Photographs $5.98 The focus of this handsome photographic study is sawn-wood ornamentation — the "gingerbread" of Victorian houses. The brilliance and variability of these sculptures are here preserved in 186 sharp, detailed photographs of handsawed architectural embellishments found on exteriors of houses constructed between 1820 and 1910. Introduction. Captions. |
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Clothes and Crafts in Victorian Times $3.98 Like an archaeological dig, Clothes & Crafts in History offers readers an opportunity to uncover exciting details of past lives in ancient cities and times. From descriptions and physical evidence left behind, readers learn about the variety of materials and skills that craft workers used to produce kitchen utensils, clothes, jewelry, and other items. Each book in the series also includes information on festivals of the time and exciting project ideas that will help young readers identify with peoples and cultures of the past. The nineteenth century is sometimes called the Victorian Age, named after Queen Victoria. During this time, industry began to change from traditional handcrafted goods to machine-produced goods — threatening to replace the human hand in crafts. People, however, realized that mass production lacked the quality of handcrafted goods and the demand for handmade woolens, delicate lace and embroidery, wood carvings, and pottery kept local artisans busy. You can also make a Victorian valentine and Punch and Judy puppets |
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Victorian Coventry Garden Windchime $69 - Antiqued gray powder-coated cast iron – Black finish – Ash wood clapper |
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The Victorian Marionette Theatre $30.98 In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance in their life and time. The history of marionette performances is interwoven with liveactor performances and with the entire gamut of annual fairs, portable and permanent theatres, music halls, magic lantern shows, waxworks, panoramas, and sideshows. McCormick has drawn upon advertisements in the Era, an entertainment paper, between the 1860s and World War I, and articles in the World’s Fair, a paper for showpeople, in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, as well as interviews with descendants of the marionette showpeople and close examinations of many of the surviving puppets. McCormick begins his study with an exploration of the Victorian marionette theatre in the context of other theatrical events of the day, with proprietors and puppeteers, and with the venues where they performed. He further examines the marionette’s position as an actor not quite human but imitating humans closely enough to be considered empathetic; the ways that physical attributes were created with wood, paint, and cloth; and the dramas and melodramas that the dolls performed. A discussion of the trick figures and specialized acts that each company possessed, as well as an exploration of the theatre’s staging, lighting, and costuming, follows in later chapters. McCormick concludes with a description of the last days ofmarionette theatre in the wake of changing audience expectations and the increasing popularity of moving pictures. This highly enjoyable and readable study, often illuminated by intriguing anecdotes such as that of the Armenian photographer who fell in love with and abducted the Holden company’s Cinderella marionette in 1881, will appeal to everyone fascinated by the magic of nineteenth-century theatre, many of whom will discover how much the marionette could contribute to that magic. |
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Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine $90 Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period. |
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