The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960
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the dining room
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Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from
various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London:
1811-1828]
Hepburn q3
A gothic side-table |
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Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from
various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London:
1811-1828]
Hepburn q93
A sideboard |
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Robert Kerr The gentleman's house; or, how to plan English
residences, from the parsonage to the palace London: 1864
Sp Coll 2773 page 112
Dining-and-Sitting Room
In the smaller classes of houses, and indeed in many of
considerable size, the Dining-room is used as a Family Sitting-room
... it becomes an apartment whose special purpose is of great
practical importance. In a word, the homely character of the Family
Parlour of an inferior house is introduced; bringing with it a certain
kind of comfort which a Drawing-room does not seem to possess (p.111) |
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The studio: an illustrated magazine of fine
and applied art London: 1893-1903 (volumes 1-28)
PAA f174-202 vol. 9, 1896-97,
page 35, PAA f183
The dining-room in an artist's house (M.H. Baillie Scott,
architect)
a cosy recess, fitted with seating, has been planned, and in this
recess the dining table is placed. When the dinner is being laid the
curtains which screen the recess from the room may be drawn across the
opening ... When ready the curtains are drawn displaying the table,
bright with dainty glass and flowers (pp.32-33) |
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The studio: an
illustrated magazine of fine and applied art
London: 1893-1903 (volumes 1-28)
PAA f174-202 vol. 17, 1899, page 175, PAA f191
The dining room at 25 Cadogan Gardens, Mr.
Mortimer Menpes' House
The cabinets of purely Japanese character in the dining-room ...
are charming in their frank simplicity, and greatly to be preferred to
the over-elaborated and decorated cabinets wioth their carved ivory
and pearl inlays which have been made in recent years by the Japanese
for the European market (p.176) |
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The studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art
London: 1893-1903 (volumes 1-28)
PAA f174-202 vol. 17, 1899, page 195, PAA f191
Decoration for a dining room
The dining room decoration for M. Edouard Detaille, carried out by
M. Plumet and M. Tony Selmersheim ... will afford a fair idea of the
excellence of the two artists' recent work (p.192) |
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H. J. Jennings Our homes and how to beautify them
London: 1902
RQ 785 plate 4
New Renaissance dining room
The firm of Waring & Gillow have worked with zeal and consistency,
and in a spirit of fine endeavour, in the interests of the new English
Renaissance. They were the pioneers, and they remain the acknowledged
leaders, of the art-gospel of refinement and simplicity (p.62) |
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H. J. Jennings Our homes and how to beautify them
London: 1902
RQ 785 plate 21
A dining room in modernized Jacobean
The colour scheme is green, which finds its chief expression in the
carpet, and is repeated in the ground of the frieze ... A pretty
wrought-iron electrolier with quaint lantern shades, and the extremely
plain chimney-piece, with its half-timbered projecting hood, are
noticeable features (p.169) |
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