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The Style of Schinkel, IlluminatedThe present chandelier is executed in the distinctive style of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), perhaps the greatest German architect and designer of the nineteenth century and the leading…
July 22 2011, 12:32pm | Comments »
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A Mixed-but Matched-Pair of Side TablesThis pair of tables, with their boldly canted corners and massive fluted legs, have a distinctive cubic parquetry top very much in the manner of Henry Hill of…
July 8 2011, 11:04am | Comments »
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June 28 2011, 11:13am | Comments »
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Half-Circle, Complete SophisticationCarlton Hobbs LCC This unusual, mahogany and boxwood inlaid George III elliptical side table is a 19th century English adaptation of the French console-desserte, a form akin…
May 3 2011, 3:45pm | Comments »
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The Harewood House TorchèresCarlton Hobbs LLC The design of this pair of carved faux bronze and faux porphyy torchères, possibly by Thomas Chippendale the Younger, is composed of an inventive synthesis…
April 18 2011, 9:12pm | Comments »
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January 31 2011, 12:30pm | Comments »
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Hanging Cabinet From Thomas Hope’s ‘Third Vase Room’This cabinet, with its Grecian temple-pediment and stepped plinth, was designed to serve as a shrine for the display of a number of smaller items from Thomas Hope’s…
January 5 2011, 12:04pm | Comments »
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From the Garden Pavillion to Ancient GreeceWe’ve had a very interesting find recently regarding this center table from the Octagon, of the Garden Pavilion, Buckingham Palace, London. The table, which appears to be the…
August 27 2010, 6:39pm | Comments »
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Such Stately Seating!This pair of armchairs formed part of a suite which furnished the State Room on the first floor of the Archduke Karl’s Palace in Vienna (now the Albertina). …
June 8 2010, 10:50am | Comments »
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An Eclectic English Work TableThis English work table, circa 1815, is a curious fusion of the refined neoclassicism of Robert Adam and the exotic eclecticism which emerged during the Regency period. The…
June 1 2010, 11:13am | Comments »
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Sitting on Family HistoryThis chair belongs to a group of seating furniture known as “Vierlander” chairs. These chairs originated in Prussia in the 18th century in the province of Vierlande in…
April 8 2010, 2:52pm | Comments »
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Regions of Excellence: The Steel of Tula, RussiaTula is an industrial city in Russia, most famous for it’s production of applied arts in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The craftsmen of Tula became renowned…
March 16 2010, 9:17am | Comments »
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