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Antique Home Furnishings and Furniture |
The article provides some information on home furniture sets. If
you're interested in the issue like that, you're recommended to turn
your attention to the home
furnishings review as well. Nowadays, considering the variety
of the available home furniture sets styles and tendencies, there is
sense to settle an issue and to shed light on the antique furniture
styles in the course of time.
First of all, it's essential to determine what furniture can be
referred as "antique furniture" and why. Antique furniture is the
articles which are dated back at least 100 years. Eventually, more and
more vendors used to claim vintage furnishings as antique home
furnishings. However, vintage is something that has been in vogue 25-50
years ago. So, if you are not a good judge at antique furniture, it's
better to ask for the help.
So, let's return to the issue of the antique furniture styles. Since
XIII c., Gothic style has been popular. Gothic antique home
furnishings are characterized by strict shapes, plant ornaments, dark
colors. The beds are high, with large and heavy canopies; the benches
are made of oak or chestnut. Then, Renaissance antique home furnishings
come. This style was created in Italy. Thus, Italian materials and
paintings dominate. The Italian home furniture sets include a bench
(that is a chest at the same time) with two small boxes on the both
sides, chairs of two types: one has four fretted legs and another
one has two legs, beds without canopies, fretted wardrobes and
nailed arm-chairs. Baroque home furniture sets are richly decorated
with gold ornaments. The furniture is made of oak and nut wood. Rococo
is more capricious style: no plain lines, no simple decorations,
everything is exotic and luxurious. On the
contrary, Classicism brings the idea of practicalness and
balanced palette. At last, Empire is a popular style of XIII c. the
features of which remind Classicism with the deviation to the Antique
Roman and Greek styles. |
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