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A collection of periods in respect of style, furnishings, fashion

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Bicorne Hat
A bicorne is a style of hat which experienced peak popularity in the 1700s and 1800s. This distinctive hat is characterized by having the broad brim turned up to create a fan-shaped hat with two corners. The name "bicorne" actually means "two cornered." Many people associate this type of hat wi ...
Arts and crafts Today
How to get the look today Furniture - should be wooden and handmade or at least look as if it's handmade. Oak is the most used wood. Look for furniture with cut-outs of upside down hearts; other trademarks are copper and leather straps. Chairs have rush or leather seats. Floors - Wooden floor ...
Arts and crafts (c.1860 to 1910)
The arts and crafts movement was made up of English designers and writers who wanted a return to well-made, handcrafted goods instead of mass-produced, poor quality machine-made items. Inspired by socialist principles and led by William Morris, the members of the movement used the medieval sys ...
Abbotsford style
Term introduced in the late 19thC for imitation Jacobean, Stuart, Tudor and Gothic furniture made in the 1820s and 30s. It was named after Abbotsford, the Scottish home of the 18th-19thC poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott, which was furnished in this style.
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)
Finish architect and furniture designer whose work during the 1920s and 30s had an enormous impact on 20thC design. Although mass-produced, Aalto's furniture is highly original, distinguished by clean, simple lines and curves, and the innovative use of materials such as moulded plywood and tubul ...
Andy Warhol
Date of Birth 6 August 1928, Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA Date of Death 22 February 1987, New York City, New York, USA (complications from gall bladder surgery) His most famous and commonly used pictures. Over the course of his career, Andy Warhol transformed contemporary art. The pow ...
1960s
The 1960s were all free love, flower power and pop music but, as the saying goes, if you remember it, you weren't there. The previous decade's love of American design was replaced, as Swinging London became the centre of all things groovy The modernism of past decades had rejected historica ...
1950s
The 1950s were the age of the consumer. The post-war boom brought massive changes in the home; it was out with the old and in with the new. Open-plan living was introduced, and the fitted kitchen with its brand new appliances was the housewife's domain. Houses were smaller than pre-war ones ...
1930s
More than 4 million homes were built between 1919 and 1939. People moved to the new suburbs in droves, where they could purchase their dream homes. The introduction of hire purchase meant people could equip their homes with the latest looks. There were several looks for the home - there was mo ...
Georgian (1714 to 1837)
Georgian style embraces a century under the reign of three Georges and is often divided into the Palladian, early and late Georgian periods. The style was partly a reaction to baroque which George I loathed. The three phases of Georgian are a continuum of each other. As the century progress ...
Japanese (discovered by west in 16th century)
Japanese stye is the defining influence on modern day minimalism. The traditional Japanese home is based on Ma - the balance between space and objects. The tatami matting made of woven rice straw is fundamental to Japanese interiors. The dimensions of a room are measured in tatami mats. For ...
Shaker (c.1747 to 1900)
A religious sect founded in England in the late 1700s, the Shakers believed in common ownership of property and communal living. Persecuted for their beliefs, they emigrated to America where they led lives of abstinence and celibacy. The Shakers believed that every object in the home should ...
Modernism (c.1918 to 1950)
Modernism is more a way of thinking than a style. Modernists believed that the design of an object should be based purely on its purpose - that 'form follows function'. History It was perhaps difficult to imagine how radical the idea of having no extra ornamentation in a room was at the be ...
1920s
This glamorous decade was the heyday of interior designers, a new profession who were employed to create fantasy rooms for lavish cocktail parties and royal patrons. In the home, modernism was taking off in Europe with the setting up of the Bauhaus, and shocking the world with its pared-dow ...
Arts and crafts (c.1860 to 1910)
The arts and crafts movement was made up of English designers and writers who wanted a return to well-made, handcrafted goods instead of mass-produced, poor quality machine-made items. Inspired by socialist principles and led by William Morris, the members of the movement used the medieval ...
Gothic (c.1150 to 1550 and revived in the 19th century)
Gothic was an architectural style predominant throughout the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance in the early 15th century. The Victorians revived the style again in the mid-19th century but this time it was a reaction against classical style and its symmetry. ...
Victorian (1837 to 1901)
Queen Victoria's reign was a time of great change in the home. Mass production meant more goods were available to buy. The newly emerging middle classes took immense pride in their homes which they saw as a reflection of status People pored over the new magazines showing the latest househo ...
Edwardian (1901 to 1910)
Queen Victoria had reigned for the best part of a century, and it was the beginning of a new century with a new king, King Edward VII, on the throne. But his reign was to be brief, lasting a mere nine years. After the heaviness, clutter and dark colours of Victorian interiors, people wanted ...