#aesthetic movement

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Peach Pink Tea Dress, ca. 1894.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

DESIGN Since 1860

Featuring an Aesthetic Interior: The Contents of a London Apartment

(Lyon and Turnbull auction October 2024)

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional.

Oh don’t mind me, I’ve just fallen down a research rabbit-hole and I can’t get out. 

[archinform]

Driehaus Museum (Nickerson mansion), 1883, 40 East Erie Street, Chicago. Corner of dining room

While Burling and Whitehouse were the architects for the residence, the elaborate interiors were the work of the highly skilled Chicago-based designers R. W. Bates & Co. (est. 1868) and William August Fiedler (1843-1903), along with George A. Schastey & Co. (1873-1897) of New York.

Driehaus Museum

[ladycatashtrophe]

The bots across most (if not all) social media platforms have departed from luring their victims with taboo debauchery + instead have landed on fake employment position advertisements that specifically target those who seek to work from home.

If only Oscar Wilde were here.

[door]

Humour in Verse by Annie French (1872-1965)

French was one of the "Glasgow Girls," a group of women who studied at the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently worked in the city around the turn of the 20th Century. This appears to have been a sketch and scrapbook, filled with words and images both drawn and pasted in. French described it on the title page as "JINGLES/ OVER/ THE/ YEARS."

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Thomas Dewing, The Days, 1884-1886, oil/canvas (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford)

[walzerjahrhundert]

Edward Bierstadt 

Glenview Sitting Room, Looking into the Ebony Library & Glenview Drawing Room/Parlor

circa 1886

[corallapis]

Edward Poynter, Mary Constance Wyndham (Lady Elcho), 1886

Mary leans back on a chaise, gazing into the distance. She is surrounded by aestheticism's accoutrements: a japonaiserie screen; blue and white ceramic vases. Her hair is fashionably shirred; her waist, in her plain mustard-yellow gown, tiny (the envy of her friends, she said proudly). One hand loosely holds a sketchbook, another book lies unopened before her. She looks deep in thought: a beauty with greater things on her mind. [A]ged twenty-four, a mother of two, [...] just a few months after the death of her beloved friend Laura Tennant and while her relationship with Arthur Balfour was growing ever deeper. Mary's family later criticized this portrait as far too solemn. Yet perhaps in Mary's forlorn expression Poynter had seen some of the turmoil in which Mary found herself at this stage of her life. — Claudia Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams

[7i74]

Ave Gustave Moreau. Welcome back Carmelo Bene. Here you are, Nicholas Roerich. Skrjabin, Odilon Redon, Huysmans, I missed you. Come over, Remedios Varo! Fauré, Ravel, come. Rejoice!

[unitmodeaveclillie]

These slides talk about the aesthetic movement and shows how different to styles changed from classic victorian clothing

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Cream Cotton House Dress, Late 1880s.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

[decadentdigest]

«FIRST AND FOREMOST, IRISH.»

There is a podcast produced by the University of Oxford, through which I became aware of an article in the New Yorker

written by Stephen Fry in 1997, after he announced that he had taken on the role of Oscar in the film Wilde. Stephen Fry shared some humorous fan letters he had received in his mailbox. But one of them read: «Dear Mr. Fry, I hope you don't forget that the key, the only key, to Oscar is that he was and is, first and foremost, Irish.»

Not that it would ever be possible to forget Wilde's Irishness, only that one might underestimate it. Over the years, much emphasis has been placed on Wilde's cosmopolitanism, not least because his individualism emerged as early as adolescence, until he became, to all intents and purposes, a homme du monde. He himself uses this description in one of his letters: «Français de sympathie, je suis Irlandais de race, et les Anglais m'ont condamné à parler le langage de Shakespeare.» Especially when we talk about the public figure he managed to create, Wilde was indeed a celebrity: Oxford provided him access to the English cultural scene and society, and the English society provided him with opportunities, in England and beyond.

In this regard, I found it enlightening to read his biography written by Matthew Sturgis in 2018. In the first two chapters, it dwells on Oscar's childhood spent with his parents in rural Ireland among archaeological remains and Celtic legends.* The belief of Lady Wilde that the Greeks were related to the Celts stimulated young Oscar's enthusiasm for the aesthetics of Greek culture. This is a fundamental aspect of Wilde's upbringing, whose eccentric personality stemmed from nothing more than a sense of nationalism and fascination with Irish folklore.

*Sir William Wilde built and owned houses in Bray and Cong. The family used to spend their holidays at Moytura House, on the shores of Lough Corrib, in Cong, County Mayo. Near Cong there is Moytura Conga, the site of the legendary Battle of Moytura, narrated in the Cath Maige Tuired (or The Battle of Magh Tuireadh) - two saga texts of the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology.

[thirty9steps]

Living Room Enclosed Living room - large traditional formal and enclosed living room idea with multicolored walls, a standard fireplace, a tile fireplace and no tv

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Sambourne House  

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