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English Antique Furniture - Adore Elegance? |
Perhaps,
all of us want to live in a flat of his dreams, where everything
resembles you about the great times of nobles, knights and
conquerors. The other people, on the contrary, will find calmness and
inspiration in such interior. Nowadays the market of English
antique
furniture is rather large and you may purchase the
reproductions as
well as the originals. The matter only in a sum of money, you are
going to spend on it.
English
antique furniture include a lot of different sub styles, such as
Tudor, Jacobean, Cromwellian, Early Georgian, Regency, William IV and
Victorian. All of them are unique and offer you to admire the beauty
and elegance of the things which are made by a human. Tudor
(1558-1603) is considered to be the style of oak. In other words, all
the English antique furniture of this period are made of this wood.
Oak is quite heavy and hard wood, so it is not so easy to carve it.
On the other hand, the oak
antique furniture are durable.
During
the period of the Jacobean style (1603-1649), the craftsmen started
to use walnut. The most part of English antique furniture which are
made of this wood was destroyed by woodworm. But still the walnut
furniture is more expensive than oak one.
Cromwellian
style of English antique furniture (1649-1660) brought turning on
chair and table legs, and also seats of chairs were made of leather.
It was something new for the office antique
furniture and these
features have remained popular till our days.
The
other style, we are going to talk about is Regency (1800-1820). This
style is a combination of three other styles: Greek and Roman,
Egyptian and Chinese. English antique furniture of that period is
distinguished by the ornaments and carvings of mythological gods, the
lion's-paw foot, sphinxes, crocodiles, and many other.
These antique
bedroom furniture are usually made of mahogany as well as
from the
other materials, have bronze decorations. At this period the
craftsmen began to produce small chairs, which are very popular now.
Probably,
it is not so easy to distinguish all the styles of English antique
furniture if you just have started to choose the most appropriate for
you. So, notwithstanding the style you choose, the basic criterion is
the individuality and comfort.
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