During this period, the interior becomes richer: the walls and ceilings are decorated with carved panels and intricate painted ornaments. Flemish tapestries, Italian heavy velvet fabrics and oriental carpets are in fashion ...

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Materials prepared: Julia Sakharova

Magazine: N (87) 2004

I must say that nothing of his own in that time England was not only borrowing alone. But precisely because they took the Tudor style, which, in turn, resorted now every time when they want to create the atmosphere of the Middle Ages, that thus it look luxurious The geographical isolation of England influenced the discrepancy between the “chronology of styles”. The era of the Middle Ages on the islands was delayed. In the 16th century, a strict, laconic atmosphere with massive dark furniture reigned in the English interior. The same carved oak: tables with chiseled legs, heavy chairs with high backs, chests, buffets and dressers. The only innovation is a huge canopy bed on four figured pillars, decorated with carvings of plants and animals, with a Bible compartment at the head. It is such a Byzantine feeling thing done besides for ages. During the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547), the palace interior becomes richer: the walls and ceilings are decorated with carved panels and intricate painted ornaments. The king invites the best architects and decorators from France and Italy. Flemish tapestries, Italian heavy velvet fabrics and oriental carpets are in fashion. In the second half of the XVI century, in the turbulent era of the brilliant queen Elizabeth I and the brilliant Shakespeare, the British began to master the world. From distant countries on ships, they bring Chinese silks and rich oriental furniture, but this is still a wonder. The decor of furniture in palaces and castles is undergoing some changes. The legs at the dining tables and the pillars of the beds look like an onion, in the ornament there appears a complicated florism - an arabesque; Furniture makers are beginning to use exotic woods: sycamore, boxwood, holly, ebony. Thanks in part to the movies, this is all in our philistine show and is now setting Middle Ages, and the designers are simply called "Tudors". Yes, and so do you suppose? it is important where the furniture actually stands in the homes of hereditary lords.Return to the Library of Styles