The Lyndhurst CollectionVictorian Neo-Gothic

The Lyndhurst Collection takes its name from Lyndhurst — Alexander Jackson Davis's Gothic Revival masterpiece on the Hudson River, one of the most complete and seriously considered Gothic Revival interiors in America. But the collection's world is wider than any single building. It reaches from the scholarly correctness of Pugin's English Gothic to the operatic total interiors of Ludwig II — Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, the Residenz in Munich — where the Gothic and Romanesque Revival became not a style but a complete inhabited vision.

The Gothic Revival was the 19th century's most intellectually serious architectural movement — a genuine attempt to recover the structural and ornamental logic of medieval architecture and bring it into the modern interior. At its best it produced rooms of extraordinary richness: pointed arches, tracery, heraldic ornament, carved oak, and a density of architectural detail that rivals anything the Baroque produced.

The Lyndhurst Collection draws from this tradition in its full geographic range — furniture and architectural elements inspired by documented examples from the Anglo-American, English, German, and French Gothic Revival of 1830–1880. The pieces here are not fairy-tale Gothic. They are architecturally researched interpretations of a movement that took itself, and its interiors, entirely seriously.

It is, deliberately, the most different collection in the Northside Modelworks catalogue. That is the point.

To be photographed in the studio's Gothic library — architectural elements drawn from European prototypes.