REGENCY

Regency Era

REGENCY ERA• was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, the Prince of Wales, ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent• The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various dates with some given a longer period than the decade of the formal Regency which lasted 1811-1820.• The Regency era formally ended in 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.

REGENCY STYLE• is applied to interior design and decorative arts of the period, typified by elegant furniture and vertically striped wallpaper, and to styles of clothing; for males, as typified by the dandy Beau Brummell, for women the Empire silhouette

• The style is strictly the late phase of Georgian architecture, and follows closely on from the Neo-classical style of the preceding years

• A new interpretation of Greek style with more emphasis on classical form• Low ceilings, plaster walls painted deep colours or papered with small repeat patterns, stars, small wreaths• Fabric sometimes used to create tented rooms• Painted finishes in vogue simulating marble and wood graining

REGENCY STYLE

Regency Furniture And Fabrics• Elegant furniture, especially chairs• Sabre legs, brass inlay, penwork• Couches with scroll ends• Greek and Egyptian influences• Damask, striped silks, glazed fabric, taffetas, stripes.

Chairs Couc

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Game table

Dining Table and Chairs

Colours

• Powerful colours often used with tints of their complimentaries• Red is very fashionable

CrimsonSulphur Yellow

Deep Green Royal Blue

• Carpet colours were chosen to harmonise with the walls, the curtain fabrics were paler than the walls, upholstery was co-ordinated with the curtain fabric, and furniture paintwork was chosen to match the background colour of the wallpaper or the walls themselves

• Green was popular for drawing rooms and libraries, and was also used for wood and ironwork, screens and blinds.

Colours

Library

Windows• Elaborate curtain treatments• Swag tails with fringes, cords and tassels

Lighting• Improved by newly invented oil lamps• Candelabras, chandeliers and torcheres in use

Candelabra Chandelier Torcheres

Interior