The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960
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the bedroom
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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 State Bed
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Charles Dickens Bleak House (with
illustrations by H.K. Browne) London: 1852-1853
Hepburn 186-203
back cover advert from No. 8, Hepburn 193
Advertisement for Heal and Son's
Illustrated Catalogue of Bedsteads. |
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Charles Dickens Bleak House (with illustrations by H.K.
Browne) London: 1852-1853
Hepburn 186-203
plate from No. 10, Hepburn 195
Nurse and Patient. |
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Charles Dickens Bleak House (with illustrations by H.K.
Browne) London: 1852-1853
Hepburn 186-203
back cover advert from No. 10, Hepburn 195
Advertisement for Heal and Son's
Illustrated Catalogue of Bedsteads. |
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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 147
English bedroom & French
Bedroom
The primary features of plan in a Bedroom are, first, the door or
doors, the fireplace, and the windows; and secondly, the bedstead, the
dressing-table, and the wardrobe; and it has to be remembered that
every Bedroom must be considered not merely as a sleeping-room but as
occasionally a sick-room. |
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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 33, PAA f183
The bed-room in an artist's house (M.H.
Baillie Scott, architect)
In our normal condition we may, perhaps, afford to ignore our
surroundings, but in illness every detail of decoration is forced upon
our attention, and while ugly things become hideous nightmares,
beautiful things charm and soothe us as they never did before (p.34) |
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H. J. Jennings Our homes and how to beautify them
London: 1902
RQ 785 plate
40 A bedroom in
white woodwork with inlaid oak furniture.
suitable for a young lady. The Nouveau Art spirit is vey evident
here, but is kept within judicious and refined limits, only in the
frieze is there a little freedom of form and colour; but the general
effect is very captivating (p.235) |
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