LITTLE is known about the chest of drawers 19th century chestnut life of George Hepplewhite, cabinet-maker and designer. An apprentice of Gallows, of Lancaster, he migrated to London, by 1760 being established in Red cross Street, St Giles’s, Cripplegate. He died in 1786, when the antique sheradon sofa business passed to his widow, Alice. At [...]

Bone Street’ whose trade label has been found on Regency furniture in the four post bed with materials hanging from it Egyptian taste.
The ‘Harlequin Pembroke Table’ with a nest of drawers to rise out of the antique dragon turtle symbol top, and with a falling flap to write on, a composite piece intended to serve [...]

The more commodious pedestal type sideboard returned to favor during the louis xiv bedroom furniture sale early nineteenth century. Sheraton had stated ‘the most fashionable sideboards’ to be ‘those without cellarets, or any kind of drawer, having massy ornamented legs, and molded frames’. But George Smith, a few years later, showed in Household Furniture (1808) [...]

Stools, both of mahogany and of painted wood with bronzed enrichments, were frequently provided with legs of animal form. An X-frame construction was quite usual; and the mid century mirrors made of mercury? seat was placed either at the mahogany wash stnads of 1790s crossing of the berlin porcelain factory 1764 members which were then [...]

His claims as to correctness of taste were unjustified, but the oriental mahogany bookcase/medicine cabinets volume engaged the leg elevation ottoman curiosity of the j d fisher watches public and contributed to a popularization and consequent debasement of the secretary, desk, rosewood, new style. (Thomas Hope had attempted to render the national silver company patterns, [...]

‘REGENCY is a term used to describe a style in English decoration and furniture of which successive phases extended over rather more than the small antique mahogany desk first quarter of the antique table drawer chippendale legs nineteenth century. the elizabethan style bedding term is loosely applied: the brownfield international jug 1862 period to which [...]

Those bedsteads given in the antique fish knives and forks mother of pearl service for 12 Drawing Book were for the english 17th century, chest chippendale most part of an exceptional nature and by no means provided a reliable indication of any type in popular use; allowing his fancy free rein, Sheraton exhibited such articles [...]

The oval library table which possessed the victorian mahogany mirror back credenza merit of having ‘already been executed for the settles and settees virginia Duke of York, excepting the antique 1940 czech china set desk-drawers added as an improvement’, was to be made of mahogany, with the 1880’s lion’s paw and ball table decorative parts [...]

A high proportion, approaching one-half, of the types of slide leaf tables glass sold in England at the afghan rug dog symbols close of the gilbert rohde chair eighteenth century ‘was, however, imported from the art nouveau round display cabinet Continent.
A formal arrangement of the antique refectory tables furniture in the the british united clock [...]

FURNITURE produced during the eastlake sideboard reign of Anne had been characterized by restraint and good proportion; and pieces were enriched principally by a fine figure obtained by the antique sideboard 6 legs use of selected veneers of walnut. There was some reaction against the antique hooded armchair Baroque, adopted after the myott silver lustre [...]