Modern Gothic style

Modern Gothic, also known as Reformed Gothic, was an Aesthetic Movement furniture and decorative-arts style of the 1860s and 1870s, that was popular in Great Britain and the United States. A rebellion against the excessive ornament of Second Empire and Rococo Revival furniture, it advocated simplicity and honesty of construction, and ornament derived from nature. Unlike the Gothic Revival, it sought not to copy Gothic designs, but to adapt them, abstract them, and apply them to new forms.