
The interiors at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London mark a specific stage in furniture development: the transition from handcrafted pieces to mass-produced goods. Since the July Revolution of 1830, the bourgeoisie had prospered under Louis-Philippe and the Liberal Party. Subsequently, innovative interiors emerged, employing industrial materials and historical stylistic forms. Prince Albert and the Royal Commission based their conception of the Great Exhibition on this development in France. This article understands the London Great Exhibition as a dispositive that responded to industrialization and fostered interior design geared towards the bourgeoisie, as well as its purely sensory reception.