and even wallpaper and textiles. 'I love the whimsigoth aesthetic. It combines the dark mystery of gothic with the whimsical romance of fairy tales and folklore – two trends I fully embrace ...

It’s still fairly dark, an architecture of walls and planes and volumes.” Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ...

Few of these architectural works have survived to this day – in many cities that grew rapidly in the 19th century, the defensive walls were removed to make room for the development of the cities.

John Bigelow Taylor A rare wool-and-silk panel woven in Brussels in the early 1500s and depicting a betrothal scene hangs on the wall at the Manhattan showroom of the textile dealer Vojtech Blau.