LowPolygon
Senior Member
The Victorians have a lot to answer for. The exhibits in the Great Exhibition of 1851, for instance, were a horror show of what mass-production combined with the spirit of Mock Goth unleashed upon a world used to restrained Georgian minimalism in design and home furnishings produced by craftsmen.
All true, but more importantly, the Great Exhibition of 1851 is remembered for Paxton’s Crystal Palace, one of the most significant buildings of the modern era, often cited as the industrial antecedent of minimalism, and every bit as ‘Victorian’ as the fondness for neo-historical embellishment.
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