Archive for the ‘English Furniture’ Category

Victorian oak Gothic Revival Hall Chairs, gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, Edwardian inlaid cabriole-leg Armchairs, antique and rosewood banded secretary Bookcase

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Victorian oak Gothic Revival Hall Chairs, rococo buffet gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, reed leg tea table Edwardian inlaid cabriole-leg Armchairs, antique acorn & leaf jug antique and rosewood banded secretary Bookcase
A George III-style gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, childdrens bentwood rockers with a swag cresting , antique side boards 125cm.
An Edwardian [...]

Aesthetic Movement walnut and ebonised Writing Cabinet, A mahogany Bureau Bookcase, Edwardian mahogany Display Cabinet

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Aesthetic Movement walnut and ebonised Writing Cabinet, rococo lampstands A mahogany Bureau Bookcase, italian giltwood verde antico marble coffee table Edwardian mahogany Display Cabinet
A set of six George III-style mahoganies
Dining Chairs, slodtz bronze cherub with carved and pierced
splats, 1900 victorian tables the drop-in seats above gadrooned
front-rails, antique cut glass ottoman [...]

carved oak and walnut Dining Chairs, Victorian oak extending Dining Table, George IV mahogany Sideboard, Edwardian mahogany Settee

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

A set of six carved oak and walnut Dining Chairs, how to make a windsor chair with an crinoline stretcher with padded backs and seats, antique bentwood rockers on turned legs joined by stretchers.
A Victorian walnut Davenport, antique chippendale secretary clawfoot hidden compartments the Leather-inset writing surface hinged above four drawers [...]

English Furniture Periods and Styles

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 [...]

English Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhite and Sheraton Furniture

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 [...]

English Regency Furniture

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 [...]