He and his wife began buying pieces to furnish their apartment. They wound up with a museum-quality collection and a ...

Country Living reports that opaque white glass came into fashion during the Victorian years because it offered an economical ...

Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social constraints of their time? Victorian Lettering: Jenna Blazevich They say Alice Christina Abbott’s weapon of choice was a cup of tea.

Identifying furniture can be tricky. Crediting a maker is often a matter of “style” or “attributed to.” Some makers’ names come to mean entire styles or time periods, like Chippendale ...

Tony Johnson, for example, was clearing his elderly aunt’s house in north London and picked up a Chinese-style yellow and blue ceramic vase which he imagined was ... Shabs Kay, from Victorian Dreams ...

The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas. Decorating the home at Christmas also ...

Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...

I have a pile of office furniture that hasn’t been assembled in almost a YEAR. Will NEVER purchase from Pottery Barn EVER AGAIN. They are a total disaster. Pottery Barn rep, do NOT respond with ...

Staffordshire dog figurines have decorated people's houses since the Victorian era ... This set of two minimalist ceramic vases would look stunning on a dining table. Just fill them with fresh ...

For every “gyatt” today (originally a variation of “god damn”, now referring to a curvy woman) there was a “dog my cats” or “od’s fish” in the Victorian era (both also meant ...

The figures come as the Victorian government has been accused of reworking the way it reports data to obscure the full extent of the state’s housing crisis. New housing register figures show ...