
English Furniture – What Do You Know? Test Your Knowledge!
The creation of fine furniture depends upon its requirements for social gatherings and entertainment its design reflecting changing conditions and modes of life
The creation of fine furniture depends upon its requirements for social gatherings and entertainment its design reflecting changing conditions and modes of life
During the 18th century in London actor David Garrick was the man everyone wanted to see, as audiences flocked to see Garrick’s Hamlet at the theatre
Mallett, of London and New York started 2016 with an exhibition at their New York gallery of fine eighteenth century English furniture, clocks and decorations
The case of a George III regulator clock at Martyn Cook Antiques made Carolyn McDowall reflect on timbers used in the Georgian era of English furniture history
Eighteenth century English gentlemen believed the character of the master of a house can be judged by the manner in which it is arranged decorated and furnished
English Georgian era (1714 – 1830) from monarchs to middling people and music of Mozart was a great gaze that began on horseback and ended in a railway carriage
In the 18th century books about what was beautiful and right inspired those founding a new Rome in America to have a vision of liberty freedom & justice for all
During the Age of Elegance in England it was considered advantageous to go walking in the countryside and to enjoy a dip in the sea to benefit your health
The Georgian era in England began on horseback and ended in a railway carriage. As to the countryside, where the vast majority of England’s nearly six million people lived, it was mainly vast fields, sprawling common waste, wonderful woodland with bogs and moors being very treacherous places. Much of the…
It seems someone believes the Harrington Commode is likely to be by eighteenth century master craftsman Thomas Chippendale based on the price received at Auction overnight at Sotheby’s, London