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Style Within: Interior Design of the 19th Century
Start Date: 2/12/2015Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Date: 2/12/2015End Time: 7:00 PM

Event Description

Exhibition from January 16, 2015 through March 27, 2015. Combining images of historic interiors and examples of furniture and decorative arts, this exhibition offered the viewer a sense of the decorating techniques found during the dramatically changing world of the 19th century.

The 19th-century home was a refuge from the fast-paced outside world introduced by the Industrial Revolution between 1750 and 1900. The styles in these homes expressed the belief that historical reference suggested good values and taste and was a way to experience life in a past seen as wonderful, beautiful and rich.

Revivalism predominates in the design of furnishings and buildings of the 19th century. Furnishings that recreated past styles were familiar and less threatening in the changing world. They offered the newly wealthy and middle class, who might be unsure about good taste, a gauge for fashion and gentility. They gave nations a visual way of reinforcing their political structure or unifying under a common past. Revivalism in interior design eased the growing consumer population of the 19th century into the new world of mass production, greater choice and disposable goods.

Contact Information:
Name: Lynn Clouser
Phone: 215-895-2414
Email: lcc48@drexel.edu
Empire style chair on pink background
Location:
Rincliffe Gallery
Main Building, 3rd Floor
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Everyone

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