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Pair of Ewardian Satinwood & Paint-Decorated Sidechairs browse these categories for related items... All Items: Furniture: English: Pre 1900: item #447425
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| Pair of Ewardian Satinwood and Paint-Decorated Sidechairs. Each with garlands of flowers surrounding the shield back and seat, pendant bell flowers on the tapered square legs. 36.75” high. These will be re-upholstered in the coming weeks, if they are no purchased as is until then. Victoria's successor, Edward VII, 59 years old, had never been on good terms with his mother, whose way of life was sharply different from his. He, too, gave his name to an age: flamboyant, ostentatious, at times vulgar and strident, with picturesque contrasts of fortune and circumstance. Yet the sharpness of the contrast between “Edwardian” and “late Victorian” should not be exaggerated. The last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century had much in common, and there had been bigger breaks before in mood and preoccupation between the high-Victorian years and the 1890s. Darwin's disciple, Thomas Huxley, an influential popularizer of science, had noted during the 1870s that everything was in question—opinions, institutions, and conventions—and the questioning thereafter never stopped. “The disintegration of opinion is so rapid,” one writer put it in the 1880s, “that wise men and foolish are equally ignorant where the close of this waning century will find us.” The writers of the last decades of the 19th century included iconoclasts like George Bernard Shaw and nonconformists like Oscar Wilde; for both, as for many others like them, all that was established was now suspect. Some commentators wrote of “a general revolt” against the accepted canons of the mid-century, a revolt influenced by thinkers outside Britain and challenging not only political or social assumptions (for example, about law and will or self-help and respectability) but also 19th-century culture as a whole, the culture of an industrialized society transformed through individual enterprise. | ||||||||||||
