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English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country .
The inventories of the 16th-century royal household were published in 1815 and 1863. The royal inventory makers were concerned only with rich textiles and tapestries, and few other domestic items are mentioned. [4] References to many published Scottish inventories are included in Simon Swynfen Jervis, British and Irish Inventories (London, 2010 ...
Example of a gateleg table. A gateleg table is a type of furniture first introduced in England in the 16th century. The table top has a fixed section and one or two hinged leaves, which, when not in use, fold down below the fixed section to hang vertically.
Turned chair, in the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset, England (Early 17th century). Turned chairs – sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs – represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that were in vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century England, New England and Holland.
Anne of Cleves House is a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house located in Lewes, East Sussex, England. [1] It formed part of Queen Anne's annulment settlement from King Henry VIII in 1541, although she never visited the property. It was restored by the architect Walter Godfrey.
Four-poster bed Ornate Elizabethan four-poster bed Four-poster bed (lit à colonnes), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed [1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains ...
Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles , Palace of Fontainebleau , the Tuileries Palace , and other royal residences.
By the mid-18th century the firm was one of the leading cabinet-makers in Lancaster. [4] They had a reputation for manufacturing very high quality furniture. [1] [5] By the end of the 1700s most of the firm's partners were based in London. [6] The firm merged with a Liverpool firm in 1897 to form Waring & Gillow.