Posts Tagged ‘hepplewhite’
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Antique Beds Furniture
BEDS. Ancient drawings portray well developed bed types in Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. Over basie structures of stone, wood, or metal were thrown animal skins and textile for softness and warmth. The framework was often well designed and adorned with inlays or appliques of metal, ivory, etc.
Egyptian [...]
Tags: Adam, American, Ancient, ancient drawings, ANTIQUE, BED, Bedding, Chippendale, draperies, FOUR-POSTER, furniture, hepplewhite, northern europe, STAND, table, wood frames
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES:
As furniture in the conventional sense hardly figured in the cultures of the Indians, millefiori small handled vase with stopper any review of American work must begin with what was made for, value~1850 black walnut chest of drawers and mainly by, antique silver tankards the early [...]
Tags: American, ANTIQUE, antique american furniture, Chippendale, cupboard, Empire, English, furniture, furniture craftsmen, hepplewhite, highboy, Queen Anne, scandinavians
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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 [...]
Tags: Beechwood, Chippendale, english designers, English Furniture, furniture maker, George Hepplewhite, gothic styles, hepplewhite, mahogany, Museum, Pembroke, poster bed, Robert Adam, thomas chippendale, Thomas Sheraton
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