Property News · March 13, 2016

Creating an impression: inside a Victorian home


The home of a 19th-century cartoonist reveals some of Victorian society’s many secretsStepping into 18 Stafford Terrace is like entering a time warp. The Victorian home in Kensington, west London, has barely changed in 100 years. The sombre brown and green furniture, old barometers and convex mirrors have all been preserved, immersing visitors in a bubble of bygone middle-class family life.Edward Linley Sambourne, a cartoonist for Punch, bought the house with his wife Marion in 1875 for £2,000. They spent two years redecorating it with William Morris wallpaper and filling their home with second-hand furniture and ornaments bought in fashionable London shops. Sambourne boasted in an 1893 interview that the objects he owned were “the very best”, but in fact they were often of little value. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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