ANTIQUE FURNITURE INTERIORS
From such an advertisement one may pretty clearly visualise the interior of the house, which would have been that of fairly well-to-do people.   But there is no evidence that the furniture was considered exceptional in any way, and apart from its age the same furniture now would not be much out of the [...]

ANTIQUE 18TH CENTURY FURNITURE CABINET MAKERS AND ANTIQUE CABBET MAKERS AND FURNITURE BOOKS AND DRAWINGS
There are several references to painted furniture at Strawberry Hill which must, however, have met with the approval of the owner. In the inventory one reads of Welsh armed chairs, painted blue and white “… ” chairs, settees, and long stools [...]

HEPPELWHITE FURNITURE. HEPPELWHITE CHAIRS, TABLES, BOOK-SHELVES, CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, SIDEBOARD and BEDS
Line is the principal characteristic of later eighteenth-century furniture to which the name of Heppelwhite is given. The style suggests a pleasant compromise between the virility of Chippendale and the formal reticence of Sheraton. Heppelwhite furniture indicates no violent change. It would seem as though [...]

CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE. CHIPPENDALE TABLES, CHARS, BEDS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS, BEDS, SOFAS
NO style of furniture is better known to the average collector than Chippendale, yet no style  has  suffered  more  from  general ignorance about it.   The name appears to have caught the imaginations of collectors, apart from the huge prices realised at auction for authentic work of [...]