Sentences with phrase «victorian period»

Paying homage to the Victorian period's obsession with birds, this decadent damask style wallpaper is characterised by its decoration of ornamental peacock birds.

«Although nowadays living spaces in the home are less defined than they were in the Victorian period, and far more multifunctional, it seems the tradition of families sitting down to eat together may be impacted by longer working hours, more hectic social lives and the growing influence of technology.»

When it came to style of house (and this one really took us by surprise), 44 per cent wanted a modern style home compared to just eight per cent lusting for a Victorian period property.

Exclusive to Topps Tiles, Henley Cool is a modern take on the classic Victorian style, allowing you to experience the traditional styling and aesthetics of the Victorian period without the intricate fixing and expense.

He also incorporated artistic touches by propping a painting over the radiator and covering the walls in blue - gray Venetian plaster, a technique popular during the Victorian period.

• Saint John has a burgeoning «foodie» scene, with many great restaurants and bars situated in the uptown area in historic buildings dating back to the Victorian period and many great housing opportunities at an affordable price.

I woke up one night when The Great Train Robbery was almost completed, and thought that what the book's really about is repression, and that's what the whole Victorian period means.

And now there's a Victorian revival, everybody is writing about the Victorian period.

The Victorian period saw a great diversity of art, and a far larger quantity created than before.

Unlike other museum - quality shows that occur in commercial spaces, usually of a single famous artist like the Francis Bacon triptych show at Gagosian (www.gagosian.com), Victoria Miro has allowed Grayson Perry to organise a show of artifacts — not art works — from the Victorian period intermingled with his own ceramic sculptures.

The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, when anxieties about increasingly industrialized products fueled a positive reevaluation of handcraftsmanship and the inherent qualities and traditions of manmade objects and decorative design that celebrated fine workmanship.

Discover the fascinating story of how this corner of Holland Park became synonymous with a group of the leading artists of the late Victorian period.

Life drawing and the mastery of the male form was an essential part of artistic study in the Victorian period.

The exhibition was entitled Cult of Beauty and it reflected how art spread into everyday life in the Victorian period.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate follows the story of twins Jacob and Evie Frye as they take again London from the Templars within the Victorian period.

The seven rooms are individually themed and decorated with items from the Victorian period.

Features such as original fire places from the Victorian period takes you to a bygone era.

Natural daylight floods the suite, shedding light upon the original cornicing and other Victorian period finishes, such as the stand - alone bath.

The beautifully appointed Inn features elaborate millwork, romantic fireplaces, tasteful antiques and old wavy glass windows indicative of the Victorian period.

Grand Plaza Apartments London are set in a beautiful Victorian period building across a peaceful garden square in the cosmopolitan and vibrant Bayswater.

The Lewis House Bed & Breakfast has gone through an extensive 6 - year bottom - to - top renovation designed to ensure your comfort and to restore the home to its original grandeur with all the charm and elegance of the late Victorian period.

The resort will evoke the old - world charm of Belize's British heritage with fine luxury appointments and state - of - the - art comforts draped in the rich colonial architecture of the Victorian period.

Mudgee's only heritage Late Victorian period guest house and restaurant.

Beautiful Victorian period house museum that consistently features displays of local heritage since it 1st opened in 1946.

Clearly a working time machine was developed by H.G.Wells and Mr. Kozlowski has come to us straight from the heart of the Victorian period.

However, he does direct interested readers to the Victorian Dictionary website, which certainly does appear to be an extremely in - depth and fascinating resource for anyone interested in the Victorian period (which, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, refers to the reign of Queen Victoria, the longest reigning monarch in English history (1837 - 1901) whose reign coincided with Britain's great age of imperial and industrial expansion.

- 15) THE VICTORIAN PERIOD / LA BELLE EPOQUE (MID 1800»S C.E. TO LATE 1800»S C.E.).

The studio execs, the ones making the $ 200 - $ 300 million movies, they need to make the change, and if we keep making Victorian period dramas where everyone is white, no that is not going to happen.»

Despite the obvious expenses involved in creating this Victorian period movie, there is little payback for audiences.

BBC1's 90 - minute Sherlock Christmas special — set in the Victorian period of the original stories — is to be shown not just on the small screen but in cinemas around the world, including China.

For one thing, PAHR 2018 puts the realities women faced in the late Victorian period at its core, while also interpreting the tale in a tone and temperament updated for the 21st century that forcibly resonates.

I also love the world that it's set in: Victorian period vaudeville theater.»

Charles Dickens was an English writer and one of the most famous novelists of the Victorian period.

Chartreuse's last major moment was its association with the British Aesthetic movement and the intellectual - yet - seamy side of the late Victorian period (1870 - 1900).

Tasked with studying climate change from the Victorian period onward, one researcher decided to bypass the tree rings method altogether, aiming instead to analyze a common tree product: paper.

In the Victorian period, just like today, scientists and members of the public worked together to further scientific discovery.

Although pneumatic pipelines have been in widespread use since the Victorian period — for conveying capsules containing documents in shops and offices for example — hydraulic pipelines, which propel capsules through water, are a more recent development and although they have been used in some industrial locations their full potential is yet to be realised.

The dehumanising language used in the WhatsApp group is really not so different from that used in the Victorian period.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

To be precise, the upper - class people of the society have been using breastfeeding chair since the Victorian period.

Roots of family idolatry of the Victorian period can be found in the covenant theologies of both English Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians who emigrated to the United States.

The dream of a loving, happy, church - going family as the hope of a Christian nation emerged as part of the American Dream during a time of cultural stress in the early Victorian period.

If the family unit is believed to be the primary source of Christian faith, as it was in Protestant churches of the Victorian period, then the Church becomes an adjunct socializer and ritualizer of family events.

As in the Victorian period, many still read Scripture as a source to reassure them that what they already «know» is «true.»

Handy suggested that since the Victorian period, Protestants had confused a civil religion — the hope of Christianizing America — with Christian faith.

This is all the more regrettable since the Order of Charity (better known as the Rosmininans), which he founded, played an important part in the «Second Spring» revival of Catholicism in this country during the Victorian period.

Subsequent chapters take up the relation between values and suffering in early Christian times, in the enlightened eighteenth century, in the Romantic and Victorian periods, in the Europe of both world wars, and in America.

The area saw a huge expansion of attractions ever since the Victorian periods, with additions such as the Royal Pavilion — long a seat of the Royal Family, but now a famous landmark in its own right — become staples of the tourist industry, which back then, was a home grown phenomenon.

And as if that wasn't enough history, the house contains original features from the Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian periods too.

Not exact matches

To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.