Trickle down effekt!

A country and it's inhibitants without their history is rootless in my opinion. Everything that has happened before has contributed to the society we live in today. It has affected previous generations and thus also affected us. Conscious or unconscious does not matter. We have been affected in one way or the other.

Is it just me who thinks it's exciting and interested in knowing how, when, why thoughts, design, trends are connected to each other?

From apporx 1820 we got a new group within the society. They became wealthy, rich and powerful through the industrialization. Of course they would like to show off there fame and fortune partly to distinguish temselves from the working class and partly to impress upon other in the same level. The fashion and thrend came from the court at that time and through trickle down effects it reached the classes below. So the houses they built and decorated were supposed to be "their castles". Much is more was important during the baroque period and as this time as well "more than much is more!" Now and then we have returned to the ancient times. Emperor Napoleon did at his time and so they did during this period. That's why we found so many houses with colums and pilasters from turn 1800/1900 here in Sweden. I think it depends on that ancient shapes were in perfect harmony with people and nature.

This pic is from Hotel Mollberg in Helsingborg, south of Sweden, The hotel is rather old but has been rebuilt several times. I suppose the present interior is dated 1860-1900. And once again we find the colums, whith roots in the ancinet Athen, is high fashion.

This column is a so called channeled colums with a corinthian capital. The Greek architects invented three types of columns to support their buildings. There was the stylish Doric, the Ionic with its scrolls, and the fancy Corinthian.

In dress- and interior history we also studied architecture and exterior of buildings to understand the interior arrangements as well as the how the dresses shapedthe bodies to correspond with the surroundings.