ABC/283 - A History of English Furniture - The age of mahogany

ABC/283

A History of English Furniture - The age of mahogany

1 volume

A History of English Furniture by Percy Macquoid, with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author. The main aim of this volume is to talk about the history, development and evolution of English furniture and the foreign influences that contributed to them. The subject has been divided into four periods. The first, dating from 1500 to 1600, comprising furniture that can be attributed to the Renaissance and its evolution from the Gothic, termed as 'The Age of Oak'. The second, from 1660 to 1720, where the change is varied by the Restoration and Dutch influence, followed by an English spirit, called 'The Age of Walnut'. The third period, lasting from 1720 to 11770, with French influences, called 'The Age of Mahogany'; and the fourth, from1770 to 1820; inspired by a combination of all things classical, combined with a curiously unbalanced taste, described as 'The Composite Age'. The colour plates depict: Gilt Chair; Gilt Console-Table; Gilt Caned Chair; Walnut Cabinet; Mahogany Sofa; Stained Wood Table; Mahogany Bed; Writing-Cabinet; Writing-Cabinet; Settee; Writing-Chair; Mahogany Commode; Amboyna and Rosewood Cabinet; Writing-Table; Ribbon-Back Chair; Pole Screen; Mahogany Chair; China-Cabinet. The other illustrations depict: Assyrian Furniture; Bed-hangings; Beds; Book-cases; Boulle; Addison; Adam brothers; Beran; Burgomaster's Chair; Cabinets; Candelabra; Candle-stands; Card-cutting; Card-tables; Carpets; Chair-bed; Chairs; Sir William Chambers; Glass Chandeliers; Chests of Drawers; China Cabinets and Cupboards; Chinese Decoraion; Thomas Chippendale; Lady Mary Coke; Commode-tables; Console-tables; Couches; Mathias Darly; Mrs. Delany; George Bubb Dodington; Double-chair Settee; Dressers; Dressing-commode; Dressing-tables; Egyptian Furniture; Evolution of Mahogany Chiars and Sofas; Fire-screens; French Chair; French Polish; Fretwork; Grinling Gibbon; Gilt Chairs and Furniture; Gothic Decoration; Giles Grendey; Gueridons; Countess of Hartford; Hepplewhite; Houghton Hall; Irish Furniture; Kent; Kettle-stands; Sir Godfrey Kneller; John Law; Leather; London Magazine; Longford Castle; Louis XIV; Louis XV; Love-seat; Lover and Reader; Mahogany; Cuban; Honduras; Spanish; Marbles; Needlework; Norfolk furniture; Lady Barbara North; Nostell Priory; Oriental Influence; Overmantel; Pedestals; Countess of Pembroke; Mrs. Pendarves; Pergolesi; French Polish; Regence; Reisener; Roman Tables; Rosewood; Scagliola; Settees; Shearer; Sheraton; Sideboards; Side-tables; Sofas; Stools; Strawberry Hill; Suffolk Furniture; Swift; Tables; Tallboys; Varnish; Wall-papers; Walnut; Horace Walpole; Palace of Wanstead; Wardrobes; Washstands; Wine Cooler; Work-tables; Worm-holes; Writing-bureaus, cabinets and tables.

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