Victorian-Revival Decor
Guest room & bath. Victorian revival themed with a touch of Steampunk here and there
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John and Joseph W. Meeks | Armchair | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gothic Revival armchair, c. 1850, New York, John & Joseph W. Meeks, mahogany, 53 x 23 x 22 in. [crocket, lancet arch, tracery, quatrefoil, rose window medallion, with Elizabethan turnings] | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Gothic chairs looked like thrones, and its tables and sideboards have a massive presence that can at best be called dignified. Yet in its higher manifestations, the style with its tracery, pointed arches and heavily carved finials was popular with wealthy cognoscenti in the United States. It spoke of class and intellectual respectability, while evoking the piety of medieval Christianity.