{"id":3177,"date":"2024-02-19T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/?post_type=advice&p=3177"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:49:03","slug":"interior-decoration","status":"publish","type":"advice","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/advice\/interior-decoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian and Edwardian interior decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To help you better understand how to decorate your Victorian or Edwardian house we have put together a reading list on Victorian houses and interiors, many of which may be available at your local library.<\/h2>\n

Some of these may be out of print. Click for details.<\/h3>\n

Don’t forget also to check our Victorian Architects Book Series<\/a>.\u00a0Every aspect of Victorian house design and interior decoration is described in detail in\u00a0The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Art Journal,\u00a0The Crystal Palace Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue<\/em>, (reprint of 1851 edn.), Dover Publications, New York, 1970.<\/p>\n

Joanna Banham, Sally Macdonald and Julia Porter,Victorian Interior Design<\/a><\/em>, Cassell, London, 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n

Helena Barrett and John Phillips,\u00a0Suburban Style: The British Home 1840–1960<\/a><\/em>, Macdonald Orbis, London and Sydney, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dorothy Bosomworth,\u00a0The Victorian Catalogue of Household Goods<\/a><\/em>, (reprint of Silber & Flemming catalogue, c. 1883), Studio Editions, London, 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Burnett,\u00a0A Social History of Housing 1815–1970<\/a><\/em>, London, Methuen, 1980.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Cooper,\u00a0Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors<\/a><\/em>, Thames & Hudson, London, 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

Caroline Davidson,\u00a0The World of Mary Ellen Best<\/a><\/em>, Chatto & Windus\/Hogarth Press, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Locke Eastlake,\u00a0Hints on Household Taste<\/a><\/em>, 1868. Reprint of 4th edn. (1878), Dover Publications, New York, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane Fawcett,\u00a0Historic Floors<\/a><\/em>, Butterworth\/Heinemann, Oxford, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlotte Gere and Lesley Hoskins,\u00a0The House Beautiful. Oscar Wilde and the aesthetic interior<\/a><\/em>, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlotte Gere,\u00a0Nineteenth Century Decoration<\/a><\/em>, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Girouard,\u00a0The Victorian Country House<\/em>, 2nd edn., Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Girouard,\u00a0Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement 1860\u20131900<\/a><\/em>, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977. Pb edn., Yale University Press, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wendy Hitchmough,\u00a0C. F. A. Voysey<\/a><\/em>, Phaidon, London, 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Kerr,\u00a0The Gentleman’s House; or, How to plan English residences, from the parsonage to the palac<\/em>e, (reprint of 3rd. edn., 1871), Johnson Reprint Co, New York and London, 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lionel Lambourne,\u00a0The Aesthetic Movement<\/a><\/em>, Phaidon, London, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan Lasdun,\u00a0Victorians at Home<\/a><\/em>, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n

Helen Long,\u00a0The Edwardian House<\/a><\/em>, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Claudius Loudon,\u00a0The Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture<\/a><\/em>, London, 1833. Reprinted Donhead, Shaftesbury, 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hermann Muthesius,\u00a0The English House<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0(reprint of 1904 edn.), BSP Professional Books, Oxford, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefan Muthesius,\u00a0The English Terraced House<\/a><\/em>, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirley Nicholson,\u00a0A Victorian Household<\/a><\/em>, Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Nylander,\u00a0Wallpapers for Historic Buildings<\/a><\/em>, 2nd edn., The Preservation Press, Washington, D.C., 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane C. Nylander,\u00a0Fabrics for Historic Buildings. A guide to selecting reproduction fabrics<\/a><\/em>, 4th edn., The Preservation Press, Washington, D.C., 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Schoeser and Celia Rufey,\u00a0English and American Textiles. From 1790 to the present<\/a><\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0Thames and Hudson, London, 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Thornton,\u00a0Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920<\/a><\/em>, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Turner and Lesley Hoskins,\u00a0Silver Studio of Design<\/a><\/em>, Webb & Bower\/Michael Joseph, Exeter, 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n

Young & Marten,\u00a0The Victorian House Catalogue<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(reprint of 1897 catalogue), Sidgwick & Jackson\/The Victorian Society, London, 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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