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William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century.He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but his real talent was for design in various media.
Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) [1] was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. [2] Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles [ 1 ] and became the most powerful ...
Thomas Shearer (18th century) Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806) Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899–1944) Bořek Šípek (1949–2016) Janice Smith; Rosanne Somerson (born 1954) Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) Russell Spanner (1916–1974) Mart Stam (1899–1986) Philippe Starck (born 1949) Gustav Stickley (1858–1942) Bill Stumpf (1936–2006) Sympson ...
Thomas Shearer (fl. 1788) [1] was an 18th-century English furniture designer and cabinet-maker. Shearer was a craftsman and the author of most of the plates in The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices and Designs of Cabinet Work, issued in 1788 "for the London Society of Cabinet Makers." The majority of these plates were republished separately ...
Pages in category "English furniture designers" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A Sheraton style chair with rectangular back. Sheraton is a late 18th-century Neoclassical English furniture style, in vogue c. 1785–1820, that was coined by 19th-century collectors and dealers to credit furniture designer Thomas Sheraton, whose books, The Cabinet Dictionary (1803) of engraved designs and the Cabinet Maker's & Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791) of furniture patterns exemplify ...
Thomas Chippendale (June 1718 – 1779) was an English woodworker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director—the most important collection of furniture designs published in England to that point which created a mass market for ...
He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale. There are no pieces of furniture made by Hepplewhite or his firm known to exist but he gave his name to a distinctive style of light, elegant furniture that was fashionable between about 1775 and ...
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