Home Interior and Design

The Victorian era is a wonderful era to plunder if you’re after something ‘period’ for your garden and Victorian Lampposts are a particularly good source of design ideas, and not just for architecture either.

Despite that, this article is about the source itself, the Victorian Lamp Post, and not a treatise on using that object as a source of design ideas for other projects. However, it does help underline the fact that the beauty of Victorian eclecticism is that there is something for all tastes.

If you live in a period property and are having difficulties finding garden furniture and garden lighting to complement your house, it is highly probable that the Victorians plundered the period your house was built for their own designs. Whilst the design will have been ‘doctored’ a little, the underlying fabric of the original will still be there. For instance, if you have a gothic period property (lucky you!), a Victorian gothic garden lamppost will do the job.

One downside of Victorian street furniture, and therefore, garden lampposts, was the era’s love affair with cast iron. The introduction of mass production made cast iron the favoured material for all sorts of garden and home wares, very beautiful most of them were too. However, cast iron is dreadfully heavy, incredibly expensive and, if it happens to fall on you, lethal.

Never fear, we’ve moved on a little and today’s ‘Victorian Lampposts’ are constructed from far more practical materials, such as aluminium, copper, and fibreglass. They still ‘look the part’ however.

For elegant and stylish garden lighting, you can’t really go wrong with a Victorian Lamppost.