Session 75: ‘”Healthy Furniture”: Interior Design and Hygiene in Victorian Britain.’

The next session of our seminar will take place on 23 November 2022 from 5 to 6pm online.

Richard W. Hayes (Architectural Historian, New York and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge) will give a paper entitled ‘”Healthy Furniture”: Interior Design and Hygiene in Victorian Britain.’

Roisin Quinn Lautrefin (Professeure de classes préparatoires au Lycée Blomet) will be his respondent.

E.W. Godwin, Furniture designs for a bedroom, c. 1876; from a sketchbook containing designs for furniture and interiors as well as drawings of architecture; pencil, pen and ink, water-colour and gouache (© Victoria and Albert Museum, E.233–1963).

All are welcome!