ABSTRACT
The ‘art of design’ was also a language or a set of practices, attitudes, and methods. Initially, it referred to preliminary drawings or sketches that played a major part in works such as painting, sculpture, or architecture. The nineteenth century, often imprecisely described as the Victorian Age, was particularly distinguished by immense and volatile changes and progress in most arenas of activity. Although there were numerous wars and conflicts, political upheavals, dynastic changes, and economic disruptions, great progress was made in the fields of science and technology, arts, literature and culture, and some progress on social changes. The Industrial Revolution is a blanket term that embraces the technological, scientific, and industrial innovations that were further developed during the century thus fuelling a massive increase in production and subsequent consumption. The ideal of a respectable family and the associated cult of the home developed through the century.
