Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and WalnutWhen a passion for collecting antique furniture first swept...
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Author: Candee, Helen Churchill,1861-1949
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Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

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Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

CHF 12.24 CHF 6.12
Author: Candee, Helen Churchill,1861-1949
Format: eBook
Language: English

Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut

When a passion for collecting antique furniture first swept America, and prizes were plucked from attics, cellars and old barns, the eagle eye of the amateur sought only those fine pieces that were made in the age of mahogany and satin-wood. Every piece was dubbed Colonial with rash generalisation until the time when a little erudition apportioned the well-made distinctive furniture to its proper classes. Then every person of culture became expert on eighteenth century furniture, and the names of Chippendale and his prolific mates fell glibly from all lips. That much accomplished, the collector and home-maker then threw an intelligent eye on another page of history and realised that the seventeenth century and certain bits of oak and walnut that had stood neglected, belonged to an equally interesting period of America's social development. All at once the word Jacobean was on every tongue, as Colonial had been before. Attics, cellars and barns were searched again, this time for oak and walnut, not mahogany, and for heavy square construction, not for bandy legs and delicate restraint. It was the marvellous carved chest that first announced itself, and then a six-legged highboy, and the lower part of a thousand-legged tablewhich now we call a gate. These, we said with inspiration, are the gods of the first settlers; mahogany is but modern stuff. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 51626
Author: Candee, Helen Churchill
Release Date: Apr 2, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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