Air House is a project that transformed a dark Victorian London home into a contemporary space defined by elegant minimalist architecture and optimised functionality. The design, by emerging ...

Chlorpromazine, tricyclic antidepressants, clozapine, and benzodiazepines are very different kinds of medicines, but come from common ancestors: nineteenth-century fabric dyes.

Key design elements of the Dark Academia style include vintage furnishings, rich fabrics, dark, moody paint colors, prominent bookcases and a diverse range of artworks, Oswald said.

This post was excerpted and adapted from Molecules, Madness, and Malaria: How Victorian fabric dyes evolved into modern medicines for mental illness and infectious disease.