Art sewing stressed the inventiveness of the embroiderer and responded against Berlin wool-work--a
high Victorian style of embellishment.
Saturday, July 13 National Gardens Scheme, gardens open for charity, Cragside, near Rothbury, Northumberland, National Trust formal garden in the
High Victorian style, 10am-5pm.
The date is actually August 29, 1874, and it runs above a full page engraving of a four-storey, mansard-roofed, clock-towered building in the
High Victorian style, located on the south side of Adelaide Street only a few blocks from where what has been called "Canada's first purpose-built opera house" now stands.
An older house on the same site had been pulled down, and a replacement Elford House took shape, notable for some lavish use of stone and departure from the
high Victorian style.
The challenge for Saratoga Associates, led by Senior Principal Michael Rudden AIA, and Andy Allison, Project Architect, was to create a spa wing as an extension to the turn of the century historic Mountain House that would "make improvements without appearing to make any changes," by seamlessly aligning with Mohonk's distinctive architecture, emulating neither
high Victorian style nor Adirondack rustic lodge.
At the turn of the century, San Francisco philanthropist and mayor Adolph Sutro rebuilt the structure in the
high Victorian style, but this too burned in 1907.
The earl later embellished the rest of the interior in
High Victorian style. His seventeenth-century Italian furniture and Flemish tapestries are still at Eastnor and his armour collection -- he suffered from what he called `armouritis' -- all has to be cleaned and greased once a year.