This talk is part of the Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025 called Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.
Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Among them are two contributors to the highly successful series Victorian Architects, published by the Victorian Society in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. As well as discussions of individual architects, the subjects of the lectures range from interiors of the Aesthetic Movement to one of the greatest of all Victorian collectors.
The Aesthetic Movement in Five English Interiors by Steven Brindle
This talk will examine five celebrated interiors of the Aesthetic Movement that involved Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co.: three dining rooms – at 1, Palace Green, Kensington, for George Howard; Rounton Grange, Yorkshire, for Sir Lowthian Bell; and Stanmore Hall, Harrow, for William Knox D’Arcy – as well as the unrealised music room at 4 Carlton Gardens for Arthur Balfour, and the saloon at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire for Alexander Henderson (the only room that survives). Steven Brindle, the author of London’s Lost Interiors, published by Atlantic Publishing last year, will discuss the clients, their artists, the rooms, their fate and what survives of them.
All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.