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NEW YORKS FABULOUS LUXURY APARTMENTS: WITH ORIGINAL FLOOR PLANS FROM THE DAKOTA, RIVER HOUSE, OLYMPIC TOWER AND OTHER GREAT BUILDINGS, ANDREW ALPERN. (0-486-25318-X)
VITRUVIUS BRITANNICUS: SECOND SERIES, J. BADESLADE, J. ROCQUE, JOHN WOOLFE AND JAMES GANDON. (0-486-46890-9)
BARBERS TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HOUSES: ELEVATIONS AND FLOOR PLANS, GEORGE F. BARBER & Co. (0-486-46527-6)
THE AMERICAN BUILDERS COMPANION, ASHER BENJAMIN. (0-486-22236-5)
VICTORIAN WOODEN AND BRICK HOUSES WITH DETAILS, A. J. BICKNELL & CO. (0-486-45103-8)
BICKNELLS VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, A. J. BICKNELL & CO. (0-486-23904-7)
VICTORIAN WOODTURNINGS AND WOODWORK, BLUMER & KUHN STAIR CO. (0-486-45114-3)
OLD MEXICO: AN ARCHITECTURAL PILGRIMAGE, ALFRED C. BOSSOM. (0-486-43638-1)
THE GARGOYLE BOOK: 572 EXAMPLES FROM GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, LESTER BURBANK BRIDAHAM. (0-486-44754-5)
100 SMALL HOUSES OF THE THIRTIES, BROWN-BLODGETT COMPANY. (0-486-44131-8)
BEAUTIFUL BUNGALOWS OF THE TWENTIES, BUILDING AGE PUBLISHING CORPORATION. (0-486-43193-2)
VlTRUVIUS BRITANNICUS: THE CLASSIC OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH ARCHITECTURE, COLEN CAMPBELL. (0-486-44799-5)
ELEGANT SMALL HOMES OF THE TWENTIES: 99 DESIGNS FROM A COMPETITION, CHICAGO TRIBUNE. (0-486-46910-7)
1000 TURN-0F-THE-CENTURY HOUSES: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND FLOOR PLANS, HERBERT C. CHIVERS. (0-486-45596-3)
VICTORIAN HOUSE DESIGNS IN AUTHENTIC FULL COLOR: 75 PLATES FROM THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICANARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION, 1885-1894, EDITED BY BLANCHE CIRKER. (0-486-29438-2)
COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOUSES OF THE TWENTIES: WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND FLOOR PLANS, EDITED BY BERNARD WELLS CLOSE. (0-486-43631-4)
AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE THIRTIES: WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND FLOOR PLANS, LEWIS A. COFFIN. (0-486-45592-0)
THE POWER OF BUILDINGS, 1920-1950: A MASTER DRAFTSMANS RECORD, HUGH FERRISS. (0-486-46920-4)
FLAGGS SMALL HOUSES: THEIR ECONOMIC DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, 1922, ERNEST FLAGG. (0-486-45197-6)
CLASSIC MODERN HOMES OF THE THIRTIES: 64 DESIGNS BY NEUTRA, GROPIUS, BREUER, STONE AND OTHERS, JAMES FORD AND KATHERINE MORROW FORD. (0-486-25927-7)
SMALL HOUSES OF THE FORTIES: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND FLOOR PLANS, HAROLD E. GROUP. (0-486-45598-X)
101 CLASSIC HOMES OF THE TWENTIES: FLOOR PLANS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, HARRIS, MCHENRY & BAKER CO. (0-486-40731-4)
AUTHENTIC VICTORIAN VILLAS AND COTTAGES: OVER 100 DESIGNS WITH ELEVATIONS AND FLOOR PLANS, ISAAC HOBBS. (0-486-44351-5)
ELEGANT COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOUSES OF THE TWENTIES, EDITED BY CHARLES S. KEEFE. (0-486-44216-0)
Portion of a Cabinet,
executed from a Design by Charles L. Eastlake.
Note on the cover photograph . The ebony library of Glenview, the John Bond Trevor Mansion at Yonkers, New York, accurately reflects the Eastlake style of interior decoration. Particularly noteworthy are the woodwork, stenciling, tiling and built-ins, all original to the mansion, which was built in 1876. Photograph by Scott Bowron courtesy of the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.
Copyright 1969 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
This Dover edition, first published in 1986, is an unabridged republication of the 1969 Dover edition of Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details , a republication of the 1878 fourth (revised) edition published by Longmans, Green and Company, London. For the 1969 Dover edition, an Introduction was prepared specially by John Gloag.
The original nine color plates from the 1878 edition are represented by black-and-white reproductions.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 18361906.
Hints on household taste.
Reprint. Originally published: Hints on household taste in furniture, upholstery, and other details. 4th ed. London : Longmans, Green, 1878.
Includes index.
1. Interior decorationHistory19th century. 2. Decoration and ornamentVictorian style. I. Title.
NK1968.E3 1986 747.22
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9780486136714
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I N 1864 the March issue of The Cornhill Magazine included an essay on The Fashion of Furniture, which expressed some refreshingly critical views. and the series, entitled Hints on Household Taste, continued until late the following year. The author signed himself Jack Easel, a pseudonym he revived thirty years later when he published his last book.
The articles were not illustrated, and Eastlake conceived the idea of recasting them, together with others he had contributed to the London Review, so they could appear in book form with his own drawings. The book was accepted and published in 1868 by Longmans, Green and Company; the title used for The Queen articles was adopted and a subtitle added, so it became: Hints on Household Taste, in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details; and in the preface the author stated that his object was to suggest some fixed principles of taste for the popular guidance of those who are not accustomed to hear such principles defined.
Hints was a seductive word for wooing the book market; contemporary magazines were full of hints about social etiquette, polite recreations, the practice of home-crafts, appreciation of the arts, indeed everything that ministered to the Victorians passion for self-improvement and dispelled their dread of idleness; morever hints implied that taste in household furnishing could be acquired painlessly, without arduous study though with confidence, for the authors professional standing guaranteed his authority. On the title page a small line of type below his name notified his fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects; and despite the intermittent thundering of Ruskin against architects and all their works, a general belief in the sanctity of professional qualifications remained unshaken. Eastlakes were indisputable : when his book first appeared he had for two years been Secretary of the R.I.B.A., and his family connections with the fine arts were impressive.
Charles Locke Eastlake was born at Plymouth, Devonshire, on March 11, 1836, the fourth son of George Eastlake, an Admiralty law agent and deputy judge advocate of the Fleet. He was named after his uncle, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (who spelt his second name without the final e), a diligent but uninspired painter, who was knighted after his election as President of the Royal Academy in 1850. This mildly distinguished artist undoubtedly influenced and certainly assisted his nephews early career.
Eastlake went to Westminster School, became a Queens scholar in 1846, and after completing his education developed a respectable talent for drawing and painting in watercolours. He entered the Royal Academy schools, and an early interest in architecture was stimulated by the award of a silver medal for architectural drawings in 1854, and by the acceptance of two designs for exhibition at the Academy in 1855 and 1856. Meanwhile he was articled to an accomplished and famous architect, Philip Hardwick, the elder (17921870); and supplemented his training by three years of travel in Europe, where he visited the principal art galleries and museums, enlarging his knowledge of painting, sculpture and architecture. He fell in love with mediaeval building; the rich, flexible freedoms of Gothic animated his imagination, and determined the character of the furniture he designed. Although qualified as an architect, he never practiced ; his creative abilities were devoted chiefly to designing furniture, and occasionally to interior fittings, wallpaper patterns, metalwork and jewellery. His merits and shortcomings as a designer are revealed by the illustrations of Hints on Household Taste.
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