The Bedroom And Boudoir Art At Home

A quietly radical guide to private taste. Private rooms reveal public selves. Lady Barker's The Bedroom And Boudoir Art At Home offers an intimate, observant exploration of nineteenth century England's most personal interiors, where pattern, furniture and lighting spoke as loudly as conversation. Equal parts antique decorating guide and cultural study, the book balances practical counsel on bedroom furnishings for Victorian households with close reading of private spaces in art and manners;...