Victorian Floral Revival | Centsational Fashion

I used to be placing collectively a design plan for my study-turned-library house makeover and picked this floral wallpaper for the partitions behind the couch and the bookcases. I selected it as a result of I needed our library to have only a contact of an previous world feeling since the remainder of the furnishings are from the fashionable period.

For years, I shied away the floral patterns of the previous, they felt dusty to me. As I become old I’ve extra appreciation for these motifs and the age the place individuals entertained themselves with books, music, and artwork. I’ve discovered myself lingering longer at artwork museums and gazing at books on pure historical past. My mom in regulation was questioning what she ought to do together with her previous set of leather-based certain encyclopedias and my immediate need was to thumb by means of them as a portal to the previous after we turned to books for info as an alternative of the web.

With the persevering with reputation of classic artwork, the resurgence of panorama wall murals, and final yr’s academia pattern, it’s no shock Victorian florals are having a second. It’s like all of us need a piece of historical past in our properties, a contact of the nineteenth century paired with fashionable traces. The simplest technique to get the look is by including wallpaper, artwork, or house accents with Victorian fashion botanical motifs whereas protecting the remainder of the house’s furnishing and lighting within the present century. Examples beneath.

  

susannah holmberg

heidi callier design

 

rejuvenation 

floral fabric at morris & co

bespoke only

dee murphy design

floral pillows

anemone wallpaper

garden wallpaper

rejuvenation 

 

via emily henderson

 rebecca & genevieve

john lewis

meinewand

You will discover could of the long-lasting William Morris patterns within the wallpaper collection at Morris & Co. Rifle Paper Co is thought for his or her contemporary takes on floral motifs comparable in appeal to previous patterns pairing animals with botanicals. Beneath are a number of decor favorites so as to add a contact of Victorian botanical patterns to your house.

 

peacock catchall tray / crimson pillow

bone china tea cup set / botanical art prints

duvet cover / shanghai pillow

 

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