M144 Sold The House Beautiful – Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior – Charlotte Gere & Leslie Hoskins – Hard Cover

Published in the centenary year of Oscar Wilde’s death, The House Beautiful celebrates Wilde’s association with the Aesthetic Movement, which flourished in Britain and America in the late 19th-century and which Wilde came to personify. Examining the origins and development of the Aesthetic Movement and its influence on the decorative arts, Charlotte Gere traces the people with whom Wilde associated, the artists, architects and designers he admired, and the houses and interiors he was influenced by. His theories on art and interior decoration, which drew heavily on John Ruskin, Walter Pater and William Morris, were disseminated not only in the drawing rooms of the socially elite but also through his lecture tours in America and the United Kingdom. Lesley Hoskins, in the final chapter, examines the popular expression of the Aesthetic Movement, drawing on these published sources as well as contemporary photographs and furniture catalogues. ‘ The House Beautiful offers a comprehensive account of the aesthetic interior across a wide spectrum of late-19th-century society, illustrated with a selection of the most evocative images, some of which are published here for the first time, of a truly decorative style. Condition Good – 144 Pages – Published by Lund Humphries in association with The Geffrye Museum London.

Height 11.5 (29cm) Width 9.75 (25cm) Item Sold