Posts Tagged ‘victorian period’

Antique Victorian and Edwardian Davenports.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

DESKSĀ  davenports
The davenport desk has been associated with the Victorian period for so long that it seems strange to conjecture that its popularity was possibly in decline by the 1880s. The name comes from Gillow’s Cost Books of the 1790sĀ  ‘Captain Davenport, a desk’ written alongside the design. So the davenport was initially a Georgian [...]