Victorian

This section gathers the journal’s writing on Victorian furniture and interiors. Start with Victorian furniture, a guide to its styles, woods and forms with museum examples, then Victorian chairs for what to ask before you buy one. Eastlake furniture, the bedroom and the settee have their own articles.

Victorian bedroom furniture: a tall ebonized bedstead with gilt ornament, a half canopy over the head and a panelled footboard, photographed against a grey studio ground

The Victorian Bedroom: Furniture, Beds and Period Detail

Antique Victorian chair of walnut with a balloon-shaped open back, carved top rail, curved cabriole legs and a seat covered in striped gold brocade

Victorian Chairs: Balloon-Backs, Revival Styles and What to Check Before You Buy

Chairs & ArmchairsEastlake Furniture Oak writing desk on a trestle base with angled front legs, a raised cabinet under a pitched lid, incised geometric decoration and metal strap hinges on the lower cupboard doors

Eastlake Furniture: The Victorian Reform Style and How to Recognize It

FurnitureRed satin sofa with a deeply buttoned back and seat, a carved wooden crest with a central oval medallion and small finials, and short turned legs, on a patterned carpet

Victorian Sofas, Settees and Fainting Couches: Names, Forms and How to Tell Them Apart

FurnitureRosewood sofa with a pierced, carved crest of flowers and scrolls along the back, red damask upholstery and curved legs, on a gray ground

Victorian Furniture: A Guide to Its Styles, Woods and Forms

FurnitureBlack lacquered three-tier stand with scrolled shelf outlines, gilt and mother-of-pearl decoration, a small mirror in a gilded scrolling frame at the top and turned legs

Complete Guide to Victorian Decor

Rococo Revival etagère shelves in rosewood

How Victorian Rooms Were Designed for Living

More in Victorian

Easy chair in walnut with period wool and silk upholstery

Why the Parlour Is Coming Back

Elsewhere in the journal
French Art Deco furniture and decoration in Ruhlmann's small salon, 1925 colour plate: pale panelled walls edged in gilt, a tiered crystal chandelier, a gilded relief above a mirror, a dark desk with a slatted lid, a cream armchair and a round painted panel of birds before the fireplace

French Art Deco Furniture: Ruhlmann’s Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exposition

Art Nouveau & Art DecoBaroque furniture: a tall state bed hung with blue silk damask, with a deep fringed canopy and curtains, shown in a dark museum gallery beside an upholstered armchair

Baroque Furniture: The Roman Baroque Bed

Baroque & RococoDark wooden cabinet with asymmetrical stepped shelves and small open compartments above, gold and red carved panels in the lower doors and a pierced brass grille at the centre

Japonisme: How Japanese Art and Design Reshaped Western Interiors

Asian · Japanese