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...Before he went on leave we debated the merits of Sea of Tranquility, the slim 2023 novel from Emily St John Mandel....
...In 1958 she had founded the Victorian Society with the poet Sir John Betjeman in the dining room, ensuring that this house and other 19th-century gems have survived intact....
...It’s an aesthetic with its roots in British Victoriana, but with a decadent slice of Italian palazzo....
...At 15 storeys, it continues to lord it over the John Nash terraces of Pall Mall and the Victoriana of Haymarket’s theatreland below....
...Despite our devotion to Victoriana, there are at least two 19th-century traditions we have neglected — the cold sideboard and the Christmas pie....
...“I’ve sold things like this to Elton John, and some people really like them in a whimsical way, but Victoriana is not a look that’s in vogue.”...
...It was a “triumph of modernity over the forces of dereliction”, says architectural writer John Grindrod in his introduction to this handsome photo-led book....
...John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the maverick third Marquess of Bute (1847-1900), subsequently remodelled the house as a Victorian Gothic mansion....
...He combined sharp tailoring, tribal details, Victoriana, romanticism and streetwear....
...I recently invested in two cocktail blouses from Self Portrait and Topshop with high necks and a gentle Victoriana feel.”...
...All these influences seamlessly became part of the signature Simone Rocha look: volume, Victoriana, Gothic Lolita, romance and deconstruction or as in this show, “collapsing tailoring”....
...Grung, who grew up on a farm in South Africa, runs Made from the Dead, a taxidermy studio influenced by Victoriana and the macabre....
...In the 1960s counterculture, with its appropriation of Victoriana, Alice was again ripe for reinterpretation....
...These hang in an opening gallery alongside emblems of Victoriana – “The Otter”, by Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria’s favourite painter – and the fin de siècle: Aubrey Beardsley drawings, a Japanese ink and...
...This world more closely resembles one of John Portman’s vast Atlanta hotels than a conventional house of the future....
...Many of the earliest pots were filled by John Hunter, the surgeon whose collection of 14,000 specimens formed the basis of the museum that opened in 1813, 20 years after his death....
...This is the home of artists and designers Linda and John Meyers, in Portland, Maine, and it’s pointing the way forward....
...Britain was emerging from postwar austerity and there was a strong desire to sweep away “ugly Victoriana”....
...(Not that Mr Bailey is alone in his rubber fixation; madcap Meadham Kirchhoff likewise mixed the shiny black stuff with Victoriana to more unsettling effect.)...
...Much of his work resembles wrinkled, rugged, American Civil War costume, with heavy cottons and twists of Victoriana....
...I am not so sure it is beautiful; it is too overwrought, too pompous and too little elegant for that but, as a slice of Victoriana, a snapshot of the soaring confidence of an era, it is as impressive and...
...Poe’s mother sports a large, vaguely threatening angular bonnet, and his foster father John Allan a top hat to rival Marge Simpson’s towering crop....
...Chorley is organising the auction, on December 11, of the stock of a local antique dealer, John Vosper, who died in September....
...Henry Hitchings is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English’ (John Murray)...
...The Seance By John Harwood Jonathan Cape £12.99 FT bookshop price: £10.39 Modern Victoriana novels tend to fall into two categories: either over-researched and therefore lacking in the crucial element...
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