Archive for Antique

Miniature Antique Four Poster Bed

Information, plans and designs for making a 1:144 scale Georgian style four-poster bed. Includes necessary details on supplies and tools, fabrics, cutting and measuring and assembly.

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Tudor Homes

An article on the history of Tudor home design, interior and exterior.

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Solent Library

Southampton Solent University pages on Decorative and applied arts:images and furniture styles.

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Elizabethan Society

The Alice Vail Middle School’s page on Elizabethan Society.

Includes sections of links on housing and furniture, fashion, literature and more.

Also a page of links on William Shakespeare and Elizabethan England.

And a Big Pond user’s links page.

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Colonial Revival Dining Set

Details of an extension table with pedestal bases that are copies of Georgian English tables from the 18th century, possibly in the style of Duncan Phyfe. Made from veneered mahogany on the table tops and chair splats while the pedestals and chair frames are made of gum which is stained to look like mahogany.

From http://www.mayhill-publications.com/dcforum/DCForumID12/71.html.

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Furniture History

A K12 teacher’s page on furniture styles at Bloomington Public Schools.

Includes links to general sites about furniture history as well as some specific pages on Arts and Crafts, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Art Deco, and French furniture. At http://fcweb.bloomington.k12.mn.us/~cvanblar/furniturestyles.

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Queen Anne Living Room Set

The entire Queen Anne living room furniture set has two end tables, a large couch, love seat and coffee table. In Ithica. http://ithaca.craigslist.org/fur/335166490.html.

Queen Anne Living Room Set

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