Available to purchase from our UK Shop/Warehouse in Kent.
Description
An Aesthetic Movement settle – sofa with ebonised and gilded details. Sunflower and Japanese Mons designs in the style of Dr Christopher Dresser. The Aesthetic Movement was an artistic and cultural movement that emerged in Britain in the late 19th century, roughly between the 1860s and 1890s. It celebrated “art for art’s sake”—the idea that art should not serve moral, political, or utilitarian functions, but instead exist purely to be beautiful and to provide sensory pleasure.
Leading designers included Christopher Dresser, E.W. Godwin, and firms like Morris & Co. and Liberty.
Rooms were designed to be visually cohesive and aesthetically pleasing, even if not always practical.
Writers like Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and Algernon Charles Swinburne were associated with the movement.
In painting, artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti emphasized beauty, mood, and symbolism.
