Category: Aspirational decor from folios and magazines.

Live in the 18th century at least until you turn the television on. Plates of ornamental designs from 1728 taken from James Gibbs’ work “A book of architecture: containing designs of buildings and ornaments.”

Three Designs for Vases, done for the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford. There are two vases well executed in Portland Stone according to the middle draught, which are set upon two large piers on each side of the principal Walk in the Garden at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire. Plate CXXXVIII. Page 316 of James Gibbs’ 1728 work A book of architecture: containing designs of buildings and ornaments. Collections of and digitalized by Oberlin College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bookofarchitectu0000gibb/page/n316/mode/1up

Draughts of vases, etc. in the Antique manner, made for several persons at different times. Many of them have been executed both in marble and metal. Plate CXXXIX. Page 312 of James Gibbs’ 1728 work A book of architecture: containing designs of buildings and ornaments. Collections of and digitalized by Oberlin College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bookofarchitectu0000gibb/page/n312/mode/1up
Eight Draughts of Marble Cisterns for Buffets. Plate CXLV. Page 324 of James Gibbs’ 1728 work A book of architecture: containing designs of buildings and ornaments. Collections of and digitalized by Oberlin College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bookofarchitectu0000gibb/page/n324/mode/1up
Fifteen pedestals for busts. Plate CL. Page 334 of James Gibbs’ 1728 work A book of architecture: containing designs of buildings and ornaments. Collections of and digitalized by Oberlin College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bookofarchitectu0000gibb/page/n334/mode/1up

Gardens to dream your way into whenever you want. Color plates from “Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture.” Published in London in 1816, it was written by H. Repton with the help of his son J. Adey Repton. Collections of the University of Wisconsin.

General view of Sherringham Bower, Norfolk: Abbot Upcher, Esquire. Page 305 of H. Repton and J. Adey Repton’s 1816 work Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture. Published in London by J. Taylor. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Image
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General view of Sherringham Bower, Norfolk – Abbot Upcher, Esquire. Page 306 of H. Repton and J. Adey Repton’s 1816 work Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture. Published in London by J. Taylor. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Image
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General view from the south and east fronts of the cottage at Endsleigh, Devonshire – Dutchess of Bedford. Page 330 of H. Repton and J. Adey Repton’s 1816 work Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture. Published in London by J. Taylor. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Image
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General view from the south and east fronts of the cottage at Endsleigh, Devonshire – Dutchess of Bedford. Page 330 of H. Repton and J. Adey Repton’s 1816 work Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture. Published in London by J. Taylor. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Image
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View from my own cottage, in Essex. Page 358 of H. Repton and J. Adey Repton’s 1816 work Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture. Published in London by J. Taylor. Collections of the University of Wisconsin. Image
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What it must have looked like in the royal palace in Copenhagen in 1830. Interiors by German/Danish watercolorist Charles Frederick de Brocktorff. Born between 1775 and 1785, he died in 1850. He fought in the Napoleonic wars before becoming an artist.

Design for an interior with green and white striped curtains and upholstery with a bed with a green and white canopy visible through a doorway in the background. ca. 1830. German/Danish. Watercolor. Charles de Brocktorff, watercolorist (born 1775-1785, died in 1850). Image © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364298?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+de+Brocktorff&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=6

Interior, Saint Petersburg? with a children’s nurse holding an infant and four children wearing white dresses with blue sashes. ca. 1825. German/Danish. Watercolor. Charles de Brocktorff, watercolorist (born 1775-1785, died in 1850). Image © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/363309?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+de+Brocktorff&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=3
Design for interior with furniture upholstered in a yellow stripe. ca. 1830. German/Danish. Watercolor. Charles de Brocktorff, watercolorist (born 1775-1785, died in 1850). Image © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364295?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+de+Brocktorff&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=4
Design for a interior with a sofa upholstered in green and a striped tablecloth. ca. 1830. German/Danish. Watercolor. Charles de Brocktorff, watercolorist (born 1775-1785, died in 1850). Image © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364297?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+de+Brocktorff&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=5
Design for an interior with a long divan and other furniture upholstered in a yellow stripe. Looks like the same room as the other watercolor with the yellow upholstered furniture and some of the pieces look to be the same. ca. 1830. German/Danish. Watercolor. Charles de Brocktorff, watercolorist (born 1775-1785, died in 1850). Image © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364296?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+de+Brocktorff&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=7

Several of these show the furniture with what we would call slipcovers making me think that they are either of rooms in a summer house or rooms with the upholstered furniture in slipcovers for the summer.

Jugendstil decor. Make your parlor look like Kaiser Wilhelm is stopping by for brunch. From Richard Leonhardt’s “Dekorative farbige Ornamente”. Published in 1907. Collections of the State Library in Berlin.

Page 5 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0005&DMDID=
Image 7 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0007&DMDID=
Image 9 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0009&DMDID=
Image 11 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0011&DMDID=
Image 17 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0017&DMDID=
Image 19 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0019&DMDID=
Image 23 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0023&DMDID=
Image 27 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0027&DMDID=
Image 29 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0029&DMDID=
Image 33 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0033&DMDID=
Image 35 of Richard Leonhardt’s 1907 Dekorative farbige Ornamente : Entwürfe wirkungsvoller, mit Schablonen ausführbarer moderner Dekorationsmalereien für Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Geselligkeitsräume. Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Image in the public domain due to age. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1805741993&PHYSID=PHYS_0035&DMDID=

Watercolors of interior spaces by American illustrator Jeremiah Goodman. Living from 1922 to 2017, he he worked as an illustrator for Lord and Taylor, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, along with creating the monthly covers of Interior Design Magazine. 

Diana Vreeland “Garden in Hell” Living Room. New York. Designed by Billy Baldwin. 1985. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/
Dining room, 19 Rue de Constantine, Paris, France.
Don Carlos de Beistegui, collector and interior designer. 1960. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli, salon, Lake Garda, Italy.
Designed by Pamela Babey for Bob Burns. 1998. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

“Monster” fireplace, tower living room, Porto Ercole, Italy.
Designed by Renzo Mongiardino for Elsa Peretti, jewelry designer and philanthropist. 2000. American. Gouache and mixed media on illustration board. Jeremiah Goodman, watercolorist (1922-2017). ©  Estate of the artist. Image ©  patrons.org.es. Fair use license. via https://patrons.org.es/jeremiah-goodman/

Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska of which little is known except that the experts at White Fox Rare Books whose website this is taken from can pinpoint the origin of this album to Hungary and Budapest because the paper was made by a Budapest firm. ca. 1890-1910.

Stylized leaves and berries design with a black background. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Stylized leaves and berries design with a forest green background. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Stylized leaves and berries design in ombre tones with a black background. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Design with acorns and oak leaves. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Design in pink and blue. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Design in black, pink and red. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 
Design with ivy leaves. ca. 1890-1910. Made in Budapest, Hungary. Watercolor. Design folio/album of Gibitz Mariska. Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1841/Design-Book-of-Gibitz-Mariska 

Have a boudoir that looks like Marie Antoinette’s. Aspirational interiors from the 1922 work “Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle”. Published in Paris by A. Morancé.

PIEDS DE TABLE. 59-60. Pieds de tables Louis XIV and Régence; 61-63. Louis XV; 71-73. Pieds de Consoles Louis XV. Page 168 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/168/mode/1up
ORNEMENTS DE MOULURES: 91. Feuilles de Refend; 92. Feuilles d’Eau; 93. Rais-de-cœur; 94. Postes feuillées; 95. Grecque; 96. Piastres. Page 174 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/174/mode/1up
ORNEMENTS DE MOULURES: 97. Entrelacs; 98. Rubans tortillés; 99. Chapelet de Perles et Fleurons; 100. Baguette de Lauriers; 101. Rubans et feuilles de Chêne; 102. Baguette a noeuds de rubans. Page 175 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/175/mode/1up
GARNITURES DE BRONZE; 122-123 Motifs d’angle Louis XVI; 121. Poignée et Entrée de serrure Louis XVI; 124. Entrée de Serrure Louis XV; 125. Entrée de serrure Louis XVI. Page 179 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/179/mode/1up
MOTIFS DE SCULPTURE LOUIS XVI: 109. Panier; 110. Vase d’ornement; 111. Torche et carquois; 112 pomme de pin; 113. Rosace: 114 Nœud de Ruban. Page 177 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/177/mode/1up
EXÉCUTION DE MEUBLES DU XVIII 1 SIÈCLE D’APRÈS LES DOCUMENTS DE LÉPOQUE: 1-2 Fauteuil de Cabinet Louis XV (Roubo); 3-4 Fauteuil de Cabinet gondole. Fauteuil sur Pivot Louis XVI (Lalonde). Page 181 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/181/mode/1up
EXÉCUTION DE MEUBLES DU XVIII 1 SIÈCLE D’APRÈS LES DOCUMENTS DE LÉPOQUE: 1-2. Veilleuse a la Turque et Paphose Louis XV (Roubo); 3. Veilleuse Louis XVI (Rondo). Page 192 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/192/mode/1up
EXÉCUTION DE MEUBLES DU XVIII 1 SIÈCLE D’APRÈS LES DOCUMENTS DE LÉPOQUE: 1-2 Lit a double tombeau et Lit a tombeau Louis XV (Radel). Page 199 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/199/mode/1up
EXÉCUTION DE MEUBLES DU XVIII 1 SIÈCLE D’APRÈS LES DOCUMENTS DE LÉPOQUE: Garnissage d’un siège Louis XV (Radel). Page 221 of Les meubles du XVIIIe siècle. 1922. French. Published in Paris by A. Morancé. Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsors. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lesmeublesduxvii00clou/page/221/mode/1up

Decorate like it’s 1912 with hints from C. H. Baer’s “120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists.” Published in Cleveland by J. H. Hansen in 1912.

Vestibule. Hans and Henry Lassen -Bremen. Watercolour by L. Gunkel – Bremen. Page 1 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/1/mode/1up

Vestibule. Schneiderelt and Wuensche – Friedenau – Berlin. Watercolour and decorative paintings by M. Pechstein – Berlin. Page 2 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/2/mode/1up

Vestible. Kurt Boschen – Moers on-the-Rhine. Page 3 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/3/mode/1up
Hall. Professor Richard Berndl- Munich. Watercolor by G. G. Klemm – Munich. Page 4 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/4/mode/1up

Vestibule. Schneiderelt and Wuensche – Friedenau – Berlin. Watercolour and decorative paintings by M. Pechstein – Berlin. Page 5 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/5/mode/1up

Hotel Vestibule. Professor Oswin Hempel – Dresden. Page 6 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/6/mode/1up
Staircase. Edgar Wood – Manchester. Page 7 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/7/mode/1up
Staircase landing. Lassen, Dresden. 8 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/8/mode/1up
Staircase landing. Emil Schaudt, Berlin. 9 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/9/mode/1up
Professor Richard Guhr- Dresden. Decorative Paintings. 1912. Page 10 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/10/mode/1up
Edgar Wood – Manchester – Staircase landing. 1912. Page 11 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/11/mode/1up
P. A. Staynes and A. T. Wolfe – London. Vestibule. 1912. Page 12 of 120 interiors in colours, designed by modern artists. Collections of and digitalized by the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/120interiorsinco00baer/page/12/mode/1up

Time travel the world with aspirational designs by lithographer/artist Félix Durin. Published by the Paris firm of Firmin-Didot in the 1870s. Collections of the New York Public Library.

XVII century mosaics and paintings, Versailles. Plate LXXXI. 1874. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-01d3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Persian (Iranian).Plate XXV. 1874. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-14be-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
XVII century painted furniture decorations. Plate XCI. 1874. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-01e3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Renaissance pottery designs. Plate LXVII. 1874. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-15de-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
17th century French jewelry. 1873. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-243c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

French design patterns. 1873. French. Félix Durin, lithographer. Firmin-Didot, printer. Collections of the New York Public Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-01f5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Make your powder room look like William Morris did the decorating. Imagery from Lewis F. Day’s 1888 work “The Application of Ornament.” Published in London by B. T. Batsford.

Plate 1. Page 7 of Lewis F. Day’s The Application of Ornament. Published in London in 1888 by B. T. Batsford. Collections of the Cornell University Library. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/cu31924031282076/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater

Identical figures reversed: 16th century German. Plate 2. Page 26 of Lewis F. Day’s The Application of Ornament. Published in London in 1888 by B. T. Batsford. Collections of the Cornell University Library. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/cu31924031282076/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater

Variety in Creatures symmetrically disposed – German. Plate 3. Page 30 of Lewis F. Day’s The Application of Ornament. Published in London in 1888 by B. T. Batsford. Collections of the Cornell University Library. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/cu31924031282076/page/n30/mode/1up?view=theater

Portion of a Tree of Jesse; Ivan Mecken. end of 15th century. Plate 3. Page 32 of Lewis F. Day’s The Application of Ornament. Published in London in 1888 by B. T. Batsford. Collections of the Cornell University Library. MSN, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/cu31924031282076/page/n32/mode/1up?view=theater