Revival Furniture Styles Popular in the Victorian Era

From Troy Segal

Attributes of the Renaissance Revival style are turned and fluted legs, raised or inset burled panels, heavily carved finials and crests, inset marble tops, and cookie-cut corners. Many pieces are further decorated by black and gold incising, marquetry inlay and bronze or brass mounts. These pieces were often gargantuan - ideal for the Victorian "more is more" philosophy. The preferred wood was walnut, as it had been in the 1500s - and that was the most accurate thing about this revival style, which also borrowed heavily from the 17th-century Baroque and the earlier Gothic periods.

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• Victorian Furniture Revivals
• Egyptian Revival Style, 1800-1820
• Greek Revival Style, 1800-1850
• Rococo Revival Style, 1845-1865
• Renaissance Revival Style, 1860-1885
• Gothic Revival Style, 1845-1890
• Queen Anne Revival Style, 1870-1890

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