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Often the age, rarity, condition, utility, or other unique features make a piece of furniture desirable as a collectors' item, and thus termed an antique. [1] The antique furniture pieces reflect the style and features of the time they were made; this can be called the antique's "period" (Edwardian, Tudor, Colonial, etc.).
The Waterfall style became popular in America after creating a stir at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931. A company in Grand Rapids, Michigan was among the first to produce furniture in the style in the United States; their efforts were successful enough to inspire other furniture factories to produce Waterfall furniture, much of which was mass-produced and of poor quality.
By 1912, it had been renamed as the Gettysburg Furniture Company. [4] [5] The "successor to the Warner Furniture company" [6] was the Engle Furniture Company of Michel Engle. In April 1905, it began manufacturing dressers and later added chiffoniers, buffets, sideboards, and library tables using oak and mahogany.
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Elizabethan mirror. Mirrors, which were very rare in Elizabeth's time, became more common in that of the Charleses, the Duke of Buckingham, during the reign of the second Charles, bringing a colony of Venetian glassmakers to Lambeth. One Elizabethan mirror is some three and a half by four and a half feet in size — five feet was the largest ...
Regular and thorough handwashing is a simple yet powerful method to prevent the spread of germs between people and from contaminated surfaces like door knobs and furniture, doctors agree.
Another way to help identify great pieces when thrifting vintage jewelry is to know the difference between different materials. For example, “Gold or silver plated base metal smells unpleasant ...
Monterey Furniture refers to several furniture lines made from 1930 to the mid-1940s in California. Uniquely western, the line derived its character from Spanish and Dutch Colonial styles, California Mission architecture and furnishings, ranch furnishings, and cowboy accoutrements such as might be found in a barn (lariats and branding irons).