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The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960

Resources in Special Collections


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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 Gothic book-case.

 

 

  Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London: 1811-1828] Hepburn q3 

Library reading chairs.

 

   

Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London: 1811-1828] Hepburn q3 

A library table and chairs

 

  Robert Kerr  The gentleman's house; or, how to plan English residences, from the parsonage to the palace London: 1864  Sp Coll 2773 page 209

Library in bays
for convenience, and in order to preserve the domestic character, it is generally preferable to make use of several smaller apartments en suite. On this plan the arrangement which is thought most favourable to considerations of utility is ... to set out a given width of clear passage-way along the central line of the rooms, and then to divide the space on each side into a succession of compartments or bays, by means of tranverse bookcases in pairs back to back (p. 209)

 

  H. J. Jennings  Our homes and how to beautify them London: 1902  RQ 785  fig. 89

Inexpensive library treatment
your books must be your principal decoration. For warmth of colour, a sense of restfulness and comfort, and a  subtle suggestion of intellectual enjoyment, there is nothing to equal well-filled book-shelves (p.205)

 

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