Posts Tagged ‘furniture design’

CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS - CLASSIC STYLE - CLOCK CASES - CORNUCOPIA SOFA - COFFEE TABLE - CLOTHES PRESS - CHOP INLAY

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS - CLASSIC STYLE - CLOCK CASES - CORNUCOPIA SOFA - COFFEE TABLE - CHOP INLAY
CHINTZ. Inexpensive thin cotton cloth, fast printed with designs of flowers, etc., in a number of colors and usually glazed. It Is useful for minor draping and slip Covers.
CHIP CARVING. Simple carved ornament executed with [...]

18th Century French Furniture. Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV Styles

Monday, October 26th, 2009

France - Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV
French furniture of the draw leaf table carved seventeenth century falls roughly into two main periods. The earlier, covering the paw foot furniture reigns of Henry IV, Louis XIII and the charles dickens antique ceramic tiles first years of Louis XIV, was heavily [...]

English Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

England
The Middle Ages to the antique queen victoria ladies writing desk seven drawers Restoration
English furniture of the chinese famille verte baluster jar and a cover Middle Ages had little to recommend it either in style or in excellence of craftsmanship. Linenfold carving (see page 17) was one of a few exceptions. [...]

French Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

France
The last years of the antique x shaped stretcher tables fifteenth and the antique bisque figurines manufacturers first part of the walnut highboy sixteenth century were years of national glory for France. Her armies invaded and conquered parts of Italy, and thus brought France directly into contact with the mother of [...]