Archive for October, 2009
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
GUIDE TO ENGLISH ANTIQUE FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES
English furniture styles developed in ways broadly in line with those of mainland Europe, art deco figurine but were interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were also many regional variations within the British Isles — a term that once encompassed England, 1930’s folding wood [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Four English designers - Chippendale, rococo over the mantel mirror Adam, insect butterfly cabinet paris museum style Hepplewhite and Sheraton
English furniture of the second half of the eighteenth century was dominated by four ‘giants’ Chippendale, antique chippendale sideboard Adam, distressed round wooden tables, england Hepplewhite and Sheraton. In a resume of [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English Regency Style Furniture
The principal characteristic of Regency furniture in England was a revival not only of the classical forms of Greece and Rome but also of the styles of the ancient world generally. In this the designers and
furniture-makers were not original; they were interpreters of older styles which in themselves [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Polish Furniture
The history of Poland has been as tragic as that of Ireland, pair burr walnut sideboards and like Ireland it has had its ages of artistic flowering. Like Ireland, art deco geometric armchair too, mid-boy sideboard it has not failed to produce men of talent in times of the worst [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Russian Furniture
Before the accession to the throne of Peter the Great (16721725) Russia was to all intents and purposes only semi-civilized. There is therefore little of interest in its furniture before the eighteenth century.
Peter the Great was the first Czar to bring Russia into the orbit of Western European culture. As [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Scandinavian Furniture
Scandinavian furniture of the edgar brandt and daum seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is generally more derivative than original. The chief influences were Holland, France and England, and of the 19th century furniture design se England was the antique buffet with medallions, brass claw feet, brass cupids most significant. This
was due [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Spain and Portugal
At the s.lelli longcase clocks beginning of the black marble mantel clocks /corinthian columns seventeenth century Spain was the secret drawers in bureau dominant nation in Europe, but its power and influence were already declining, chiefly as a result of its fruitless political struggles with England and Holland.
The enormous [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English Furniture
The Age of Walnut
The Restoration of Charles II to the secretary bookcase desk painted throne of England and Scotland in 1660 heralded a new age in Britain, which was to break away from the ebonized edwardian sideboard with queen anne legs mood of asceticism imposed under the chinese inspired sideboard [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English copies of 18th-Century French Furniture
It has been noted (see page 124) that after the 18th and 19th century small octagonal table designs execution of Louis XVI of France in 1793 large quantities of eighteenth-century French furniture made by the bobbin leg table Paris ebenistes were bought at sales by English [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
French Furniture
Directoire and Empire
The French Revolution, which broke out in 1789, did not put an immediate end to the antique furniture yuba city Louis XVI period of furniture. There were still people about who were rich enough to order and pay for or bold enough to order and not pay for [...]
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