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It's a jubilee! We're celebrating twenty years of bestselling success. Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendar is a treasure—a feast for the eyes and imagination that dazzles with its exuberance and prettiness, and evokes comforting thoughts of family, home, and tradition. These dozen luxuriant collages reflect the artist's exceptional eye for detail, layering antique paper ephemera, lavish fabrics, garlands of ribbon and lace, jewelry, and perfect cut flowers for an effect that's nostalgic, yet utterly fresh and dynamic. This special anniversary edition is packaged with a crafty gift: a scrapbooking kit with four sheets of decorative papers, thirty-five die-cut embellishments and frames, and sixty-five stickers—all decorated with Cynthia Hart's keepsake designs..
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In this provocative look at Victorian America, Kenneth Ames explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations. Featuring five once-prominent home furnishings, he reconstructs a vanished culture and demonstrates the centrality of the artifact to historical understanding. Richly illustrated with photographs of surviving objects as well as images from a wide variety of period sources, the five essays discuss specific pieces—hallstands, sideboards, embroidered mottoes, parlor organs, and seating furniture—within the context of broader cultural issues and concerns. Ames reveals not only the major outlines of Victorian culture but also the conflicts and tensions deep within that culture.

An extraordinary proliferation of goods characterizes the Victorian world. Throughout the study, Ames considers the relationship of some of these household objects to issues of class, gender, and place. For example, the importance of public image was dramatized by the rituals of the front hall in Victorian homes: its placement within the house, the massive hallstand with its receptacles for calling cards and umbrellas, accommodations for temporary and usually uncomfortable seating. The dining room was a shrine to the notion of "man's" dominion over nature—each elaborately carved sideboard displayed a frieze of slaughtered game and harvested vegetation. Parlor organs, a blending of the sacred and the profane, provided an occasion to display feminine accomplishment and to symbolize the role of the bourgeois Christian lady. Ames also discusses how the prevailing class and gender hierarchy was echoed in the posture of seating furniture and its arrangement.

The author is one of the premier interpreters of Victorian culture in America. His witty, provocative, and irreverent commentary on the "quaint" fixtures of the Victorian household will fascinate scholars, antique buffs, and collectors on nostalgia..
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Victorian Style is a lavish illustrated survey of this eclectic, richly decorative era. Each aspect of domestic style is examined, from exterior details to every element of the interior, with special emphasis on styles for individual rooms. There is a wealth of inspired ideas for recreating Victorian style, room by room. The authoritative text explores the historical and social background to the style and offers practical advice that can be tailored to fit any home, budget or lifestyle..
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In "Phantoms of Old Louisville: Ghostly Tales from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood," Kentucky Author David Dominé conducts a literary stroll through a picturesque Victorian neighborhood where unexplained occurrences abound in grand old homes behind fortress-like walls. He adroitly pulls the reader along on a tour of hidden balconies and secret passage ways while describing architectural facets that make each dwelling unique. Along with fascinating stories and first-hand accounts from home owners and residents, Dominé offers pictures of the alleged haunts to help readers visualize spooks and phantoms as he unfolds his tales of lost spirits and forlorn phantoms. Old Louisville, the third largest historic preservation district in the nation, boasts hundreds and hundreds of opulent Victorian mansions, each of them with a story, and David Dominé brings them to life and takes the reader inside on a sumptuous visual foray. In "Phantoms of Old Louisville: Ghostly Tales from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood," guests are urged to make themselves comfortable and feel at home, but right as they settle in, the author pulls the rug out from under them and defies rational explanation of the would-be paranormal occurrences in his stories. Sure to please both history buffs and ghost story enthusiasts alike, this intriguing collection of supernatural tales peppered with lavish architecture, haunting history and colorful characters makes it a perfect read any time of the year..
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The Victorian Home guides children through the grand homes of the Victorian era explaining the Victorian values and tastes behind their design from the magnificent parlor to the scandalously secretive water closet! .
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