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Settees were made at this time whose backs consisted of several just such immense scallops as those of these Holland House Gilt Chamber chairs; [3] and the same idea of decoration peeps out in fan-like frills at every spare corner of the Neo-Jacobean revival of the style. These shell forms of furniture might befit an oceanside home, but they ...
Architecture in the Jacobean era was a continuation of the Elizabethan style with increasing emphasis on classical elements like columns and obelisks. Architectural detail and decorative strapwork patterns derived from continental engravings, especially the prints of Hans Vredeman de Vries, were employed on buildings and furniture.
Red oak rings in at a 1290 on the Janka scale (the higher the number, the stronger the board), and white oak comes in at 1360. Durability: Thanks to the wood’s open grain, wood stains take ...
The Jacobean east wing of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, built in 1615–36 Bank Hall, Bretherton, built in 1608. Reproductions of the Classical orders had already found their way into English architecture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, frequently based upon John Shute's The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other editions in 1579 and 1584.
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.
Staircases became wide and elaborate, and normally made of oak; Burghley and Hardwick are exceptions using stone. [22] The new concept of a large long gallery was an important space, [ 14 ] and many houses had spaces for entertaining on the top floor, whether small rooms in towers on the roof, or the very large top-floor rooms at Hardwick and ...
Oak timber is a strong and hard wood with many uses, such as for furniture, floors, building frames, and veneers. [70] The wood of a red oak Quercus cerris (the Turkey oak) has better mechanical properties than those of the white oaks Q. petraea and Q. robur; the heartwood and sapwood have similar mechanical properties. [71]
At The Deanery in Berkshire, 1899, (right), where the client was the editor of the influential magazine Country Life, [17] details like the openwork brick balustrade, the many-paned oriel window and facetted staircase tower, the shadowed windows under the eaves, or the prominent clustered chimneys were conventional Tudor Revival borrowings ...