item: #1 of 10 id: 12254 author: Litchfield, Frederick title: Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time date: None words: 77668 flesch: 60 summary: At this time furniture design and manufacture, as an Industrial Art in England, seems to have attracted no attention whatever. Said to be the work of a Flemish Artist who was brought over for the purpose of executing this and other carved work at Youghal.] keywords: art; articles; book; bronze; cabinet; carving; century; chair; chapter; character; charles; chimney; chinese; chippendale; collection; country; court; date; day; decoration; design; early; ebony; effect; england; english; examples; exhibition; fashion; france; french; furniture; general; gold; gothic; hall; history; house; illustration; influence; inlaid; italian; ivory; james; jones; kensington; king; legs; little; london; louis; marqueterie; middle; museum; new; oak; original; ornament; panels; paris; period; pieces; place; present; queen; reference; reign; renaissance; rich; roman; room; sheraton; silver; sir; south; specimens; square; state; street; style; subject; table; taste; thomas; time; william; wood; woodwork; work; writer; years cache: 12254.txt plain text: 12254.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 14298 author: Burbank, Emily title: The Art of Interior Decoration date: None words: 41506 flesch: 66 summary: In repapering old rooms with imperfect ceilings it is easy to disguise this by using a paper with a small design in the same tone. In period rooms often beautiful light or heavy mouldings entirely frame the three sides of the fireplace when it is of wood. keywords: antique; art; background; black; blue; century; chairs; chapter; chintz; colour; curtains; dark; day; decoration; design; dining; empire; flowers; french; furniture; glass; gold; great; green; house; illustration; interior; italian; light; line; louis; new; paper; period; picture; plate; room; scheme; shades; silk; style; table; time; treatment; walls; way; white; wood; work; xvi; york cache: 14298.txt plain text: 14298.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 34877 author: Hayden, Arthur title: Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors date: None words: 36536 flesch: 69 summary: Doubts have even been expressed regarding certain pieces in the great national collections; in fact the art of the forger in regard to old French furniture, of which specimens change hands at anything from £1,000 to £10,000, has reached a very high level of excellence, having almost been elevated to one of the fine arts. CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE keywords: anne; art; cabinet; century; chair; charles; chippendale; christie; collection; days; design; drawers; england; english; french; furniture; glossary; illustrated; illustration; inlaid; jacobean; legs; louis; mahogany; marquetry; museum; oak; panels; period; permission; pieces; queen; renaissance; sheraton; sixteenth; specimens; style; table; time; walnut; wood; work cache: 34877.txt plain text: 34877.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 34897 author: Northend, Mary Harrod title: Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings date: None words: 53896 flesch: 68 summary: The horseshoe knocker, a specimen of the hammer class, is a prized relic of many old homes. Yet beneath this devastation one versed in house lore can read many a tale of interest, for old houses, like old books, secrete between their covers many a story that is well worth while. keywords: american; brass; century; chair; china; chippendale; clock; collection; colonial; construction; country; day; days; design; door; dutch; dwelling; eighteenth; england; english; examples; family; favor; fine; flowers; form; garden; glass; hall; home; house; illustration; john; knocker; little; making; manufacture; mass; massachusetts; new; old; period; pewter; pieces; plate; present; room; salem; sheraton; showing; silver; specimens; street; style; time; type; wall; ware; white; wood; work; years cache: 34897.txt plain text: 34897.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 43805 author: Reveirs-Hopkins, A. E. (Alfred Edward) title: Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne date: None words: 26318 flesch: 72 summary: 82 LACQUERED TOILET MIRROR] INDEX Architectural inspiration less marked, 39 Ashton on Queen Anne period, 13 Balusters, examples of, 31 Baths at Hampton Court, 5 in early times, 5 Bedroom, Queen Anne, 43-46 Bedsteads at Court, 7 modern Queen Anne, 43-44 Buckingham's, Duke of, glass works, 37 Bureaux, Queen Anne period, 79 William and Mary period, 78 with secret drawers, 80-81 Cabriole legs, 53 Chairs (_see_ Chapter IV.) claw-and-ball decoration, 54 double, 58 drunkards', 57 fine, 57 ladder-backed, 55 period of James II., 47 Queen Anne, 51-57 shaped, 56 William and Mary, 50-51 with cabriole legs, 53-54 with rigid lines, 8, 50 Chests of drawers (_see_ cabinets, 109 China cabinet, 108 clock, 108 dressing-glasses, 111 dressing-table, 110 French, 106-107 history of, 95-97 Japanese, 106 mirror, 110 Law, Ernest, on Queen Anne period, 2, 3, 8 Macaulay, on Verrio, 9 views on collecting porcelain, 4 Macquoid, Percy, Age of Walnut, 50 on marquetry, 67 Mahogany introduced, 8, 72 Marquetry defined, 16 Macquoid on, 67 Pollen on, 66 used on clock, 88 mirror frames, 42 tables, 61 wardrobes, 73 Marsh, Anthony (clock-maker), 86 Martin, John (clock-maker), 88 McCarthy, Justin, on Queen Anne period, 11 Mirrors (_see_ Chapter III.) by Grinling Gibbon, 38 Clouston on, 37 early examples, 35 Gesso work, 41 in Hampton Court, 36-37 in Holyrood Palace, 36 Mirrors, in marquetry, 42 in Van Eyck's picture in National Gallery, 35 influence of Wren, 40 mentioned in Evelyn's Diary, 36 mentioned in Paradise Lost, 34 notes on purchasing, 40 simple, 38-39 toilet, 42 Needlework, petit point, 57 popular with women, 59 Queen Mary's, 3 Pollen, J. H., on marquetry, 66 on Queen Anne period, 10 Quare, Daniel (clock-maker), 88 Queen Anne period, a gambling age, 62 Anne's influence, 10 Ashton quoted, 12 bedroom, 43-46 chairs and tables, &c. (_see_ Chapter IV.) definition, 8-9 houses of middle class, 60 Justin McCarthy on, 11 old city houses, 31 ordinary types of mirrors, 38, 39 simple furniture, 9, 10 Thackeray on, 12 writing-table, 79 Queen Mary, her needlework, 3 Settee, 58 Stalker, John, on japanning and varnishing, 99-105 Stools, William and Mary, 42 Queen Anne, 43 Tables (_see_ Chapter IV.) keywords: anne; anne period; century; chairs; china; clocks; court; day; decoration; drawers; early; england; english; fig; find; fine; form; furniture; house; illustration; legs; mary; mirror; oak; period; queen; queen anne; simple; table; time; walnut; william; wood; work; wren cache: 43805.txt plain text: 43805.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 44603 author: Hayden, Arthur title: Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture date: None words: 44841 flesch: 68 summary: chests of drawers, 62 Charles II. period, impetus given to furniture design, 95 Charles II. period, styles of chairs, 211 Chests, Gothic, 34 Chests, sixteenth century, 34 Chests, Welsh carving, 277 Chests of drawers, 60 Chests of drawers, Charles II. period, 62 Chests of drawers, Queen Anne style, 67 Children's stools, Jacobean, illustrated, 77 Chimney crane, the, 294 China and glass cupboards, 180 Chinese designs in chintzes, 333 Chinese style of Chippendale, 227 Chintz printing becomes a national industry, 321 Chintzes, old English, 317-341 Chippendale and his contemporaries, 180 Chippendale clock cases, 312 Chippendale quoted, 227, 228 Chippendale, ribbon designs of, 179 Chippendale style, provincial, 221 Chippendale style Windsor chairs, 254 Chocolate houses, polemic against, 170 Chronology, seventeenth-century, 45-48 Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of, 162 Clock and dresser combined, 129 Clocks, grandfather, 306 Club foot, introduction of, 162 Cobbett, William, quoted, 67 Coffee-drinking and coffee-houses, 170 Coffee, women's petition against, 170 Corner chairs, 240 Cottage furniture and earthenware compared, 31 Country cabinet-maker, his mixture of styles, 211 Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, 221 Country furniture, its sturdy independence, 24 Country makers little influenced by contemporary fashion, 50 Cradles, 148 Cromwellian chests with drawers, 52 Crusie, the Scottish, 277, 293 Cupboard, the bacon, 154 Cupboard, Welsh carving, 277 Cupboards, corner, introduction of, 162 Cupboards and drawers, taste for, 125 Cupid's bow underframing, 107, 185 Cupid's bow top rail of chair, 218 Cushions, their use with chairs, 199, 207 Delany, Mrs., quoted, 153 Denmark, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38 Derbyshire chairs, 203 Design books, eighteenth-century, publication of, 222 _Director_, by Chippendale, a working guide, 223 Drawer accommodation a feature in late dressers, 130 Drawers, chests of, 60 Drawers, chests of, Charles II. period, 62 Drawers, chests of, Queen Anne style, 67 Dresser and clock combined, 129 Dressers, farmhouse, 115-135 Dressers-- Brittany, 134 Lancashire, 134 Normandy, 134 Welsh, 133 Dutch artisans print early English chintzes, 321 Dutch influence early eighteenth century, 168, 170 Earthenware and cottage furniture compared, 31 Eighteenth-century dressers, 130 Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, 249 Eighteenth-century styles, 157-187 Elizabethan turned chairs, 37 English chintzes, old, 317-341 English farmhouse furniture, desirability of its preservation, 42 English joiners' work, its solidity, 51 Essex tables, 283 Exotic bird patterns in chintzes, 333 Farmer's Boy (Robert Bloomfield) quoted, 268 Farmhouse furniture (English), desirability of its preservation, 42 Farmhouse furniture influenced by walnut styles, 208 Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair, 208 Feet-- Arcaded foot, Charles II. period, 62 Ball, 62; illustrated, 65 Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of the, 162 Club foot, its introduction, 162 Hoof foot, the, 176 Scroll or Spanish foot, 104, 203 Spanish foot, the, 104, 203 Spanish foot, in corrupted form, illustrated, 105, 109 Trestle, in Gothic style, 90 Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, 162 Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, 217 Fiddle splat Windsor chair at its best, 254 Fiddle-string backs, 249 Firebacks, Sussex, 296 Firebacks, Sussex, fine examples exhibited, 305 Firedogs, cottage and farmhouse, 294 Food of country population, seventeenth century, 81 Foreign styles, slow assimilation of, 67 French artisans print early English chintzes, 321 Gate-leg tables, 85-112 Gate-leg table, double gates, 96; illustrated, 93 Gate-leg table, established as a popular type, 90 Gate-leg table, square top, illustrated, 105 Geometric panels, chests of drawers, 61; dressers, 121 Georgian styles, early types, 179 Gibbons, Grinling, the style of, 56 Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, 253 Gothic brackets to chests, 34 Gothic chests, 34 Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89 Grandfather chair, the, 230 Grandfather chair, curved lines of, 168 Grandfather clocks, 306 Grandfather clock combined with dresser, 129 Great Seal of Queen Anne, showing style of ornament, 168 Hardwick Hall, suite at, 55 Hepplewhite clock cases, 312 Hepplewhite influence on village work, 207 Hepplewhite quoted, 229, 230 Hepplewhite style, provincial, 221 Hertfordshire tables, 283 Hogarth, the line of beauty the curve, 168 Hoof foot, the, 176 Horseshoe-back Windsor chairs, 130, 257, 260 Incongruity of provincial cabinet-maker, 211 Inlaid work rarely employed, 55 Inlaid work with walnut, 169 Inlaid work, woods used, 169 Irish Chippendale, 272 Ironwork, miscellaneous, 287-313 Ironwork, Scottish, 277 Isle of Man tables, 283 Jacobean cradles, 148 Jacobean dressers with geometric panels, 121 Jacobean furniture, typical styles, 49 Jacobean oak chair, typical form, 196 Jacobean period, its characteristics, 95 Jacobean period, late styles of, 115 Jacobean style, its transition to William and Mary, 207 Jacobean Sussex firebacks, 299, 300 Joinery, the solidity of English, 51 Jones, R., of Old Ford, chintz printer, 337 Kettle trivet, the cottager's, 295 Lacquer employed in clock-cases, 312 Ladder-back chair, the, 233 Lancashire chintzes, 337 Lancashire dressers, 134 Lancashire furniture, 278 Lancashire Queen Anne settle, 167 Lancashire rush-bottom chair, 241 Legs-- Barley sugar turning illustrated, 105 Cabriole leg, introduction of the, 167 Egg and reel turning, 43; illustrated, 93 Eight legs (gate table), 99 Elizabethan bulbous leg, 60 Jacobean straight-turned leg, 60 Jacobean, various forms of turning, 89 Queen Anne cabriole leg, 129 Six legs, gate table, illustrated, 99 Split urn leg, illustrated, 91, 119 Straight leg again in vogue, 180 Urn-shaped leg, 60 Urn-shaped splat, 121; illustrated, 91, 119 Linen-fold pattern on chests, 32 Local types, 33 Local types of furniture, 267-284 London and the vicinity, chintz printed in, 322 Longleat, oak furniture at, 55 Lyngby (near Copenhagen), collection of old farmhouse furniture at, 41 Macaulay quoted, 158 Macaulay, State of England in 1685 quoted, 76 Mahogany gate-leg tables, 103 Mahogany styles, their gracefulness, 179 Mahogany, the chief designers of, of the golden age, 104 Marlborough, Duchess of, and her intrigues, 158 Marquetry bureaus in coloured woods, 169 Marquetry, woods used in, 169 Minor cabinet-makers' work lacking harmony, 212 Modern office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263 More, Hannah, and the agricultural classes, 175 Morris, William, his influence on furniture, 111 Mule chests, 52 Norfolk, oak furniture, 283 Normandy dressers, 134 Normans, furniture, styles of, introduced by, 37 North, Roger, quoted, 170 Oak, erroneously used to carry out walnut designs, 212 Oak, general in its use, 55 Oak supplanted by walnut in fashionable furniture, 207 Oak the chief wood employed, 33 Office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263 Oriental patterns in chintzes, 333 Panelling, bevel of, indicating date of, 204 Panels, sunk, Jacobean style, 62 Patterns, wood, used for firebacks, 300 People, changing habits of the, in seventeenth century, 72 Pepys's _Diary_, quoted, 79 Pleasure gardens, eighteenth-century, 249 Pot-hook, the, 294 Pot-hooks, fine examples, where exhibited, 294 Prince of Wales's feathers, 227 Provincial furniture many decades behind fashion, 50 Queen Anne, cabriole leg, 129 Queen Anne dressers, 122 Queen Anne flap tables, 89 Queen Anne period, the splat of the, 217 Restoration period, chests of drawers, 62 Ribbon designs, introduction of, 179 Roads in provinces, bad state of, 79 Rush-bottom chair, the, 233 Rushlight holder, the, 288 Scandinavian origin of Elizabethan chair, 37 Scotland, Union with, proclamation by Queen Anne, 161 Scottish types of ironwork, 277 Seaweed marquetry in clock-cases, 312 Settle, Lancashire form, 278 Settle, Queen Anne style, 167 Seventeenth-century, chronology of, 45-48 Seventeenth-century settle (Lancashire), 278 Seventeenth-century sideboard, typical style, 56 Seventeenth-century styles, 49-82 Seventeenth-century styles, types of, 72 Shell ornament, early eighteenth-century, 167 Sheraton clock-cases, 312 Sheraton influence on country makers, 234 Sheraton influence in Windsor chairs, 259 Sheraton style, provincial, 221 Sideboard, typical seventeenth-century style, 56 Sixteenth-century chests, 34 Sizergh Castle, oak room at, 55 Spanish foot, its use, 104, 107 Spanish Succession, War of the, 161 Spindle-back chair, the, 234 Spindle-back chairs (Lancashire), 278 Spinning-wheels, 153 Spitalfields weavers, complaint as to chintz fashions, 326, 330 Splat, the Queen Anne, 217 Staffordshire pottery and cottage furniture compared, 31 Stands for chests of drawers, 67 Stockholm, collection of farmhouse furniture at, 38 Stools, children's Jacobean, illustrated, 77 Straight-backed chairs, 203 Stretcher, evolution of the, 200 Stretcher, Yorkshire splat form, 96 Suffolk oak furniture, 283 Sussex firebacks, 296 Sussex ironworks, the, 295, 296 Swan head to cupboard, 168 Sweden, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38 Swift quoted, 161 Tables-- Adam style, 186 Arcaded spandrils, illustrated, 179 Bedfordshire types, 283 Cambridge types, 283 Collapsible form (Charles II.), 103 Cross stretcher, =X= form, 103 Cupid's bow underframing, 107; illustrated, 109 Elizabethan bulbous-leg form, 60 Essex types, 283 Flap tables (Queen Anne), 89; (Georgian), illustrated, 183 Gate-leg, 85-112 Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89 Hertfordshire types, 283 Isle of Man table, 283 Scalloped-edge tea-table, illustrated, 181 Scalloped underframing, illustrated, 73 Sixteenth-century style, 52 Spandrils, arcaded, illustrated, 179 Stretchers, splat form, 89; illustrated, 97 Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185 Three-legged, 283 Underframing, Cupid's bow, illustrated, 109 Various local types, 283 Yorkshire type, 89 Tapers, how made by cottagers, 288 Tavern chair, the, 249 Tea-drinking becomes national, 170 Tea-gardens, eighteenth-century, 249 Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185 Three-legged tables, 283 Transition from Jacobean to William and Mary styles, 207 Trestle in gate-leg table, 89 Triangular gate form, 86; illustrated, 87 Tripod tables, 185 Turning, various patterns in Jacobean leg, 89 Union with Scotland, 161 Varangian Guard introduce Byzantine furniture into Scandinavia, 37 Veneer, in walnut, early eighteenth-century, 169 Village cabinet-maker, originality of, 32 Wales, Prince of, feathers in chair back, 227 Walnut gate-leg tables, 103 Walnut in general use, 207 Walnut styles, early eighteenth-century, 169 Walnut supplanted by mahogany, 207 Warming-pan, the, 295 Wardrobe, Lancashire type, 278 Welsh carving, 272 Welsh dressers, 133 Wesley and the Methodist movement, 175 Whitefield and the colliers, 175 Wheel-back Windsor chairs, 257 William and Mary dressers, 126 William and Mary gate-leg tables, 104 William and Mary period, finely turned work, 75 William and Mary style, its development from Jacobean, 207 Windsor chair, the, 243-263 Windsor chair, the, Sheraton influence, 259 Windsor chair, its survival, 260 Windsor chairs, Chippendale style, 254 Wood patterns used for firebacks, 300 Woods employed in farmhouse furniture, 33 Woods used in Windsor chairs, 249, 250 Woods used in walnut marquetry, 169 Women's petition against coffee, 170 Yorkshire chairs, 203 Yorkshire splat stretcher to tables, 96 UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON. keywords: anne; cabinet; cabriole; century; chair; chapter; character; chests; chippendale; cottage; country; date; days; design; drawers; dresser; eighteenth; english; examples; farmhouse; farmhouse furniture; fine; form; furniture; gate; illustration; ins; jacobean; leg; leg table; legs; maker; oak; oak table; old; period; queen; queen anne; splat; stretcher; style; table; type; walnut; william; windsor; wood; work cache: 44603.txt plain text: 44603.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 47917 author: Moore, N. Hudson title: The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways date: None words: 71344 flesch: 73 summary: In these early books of designs are not only folding beds, press-beds, and library bedsteads, but folding washstands and toilet-tables, as well as tables, toilets, and bureaus which concealed the mattress and bed furniture by day. He gave directions for making, among other things, folding-beds, washstands, card-tables, sideboards, and many other pieces. keywords: america; bed; beds; black; book; boston; brass; cabinet; carving; case; century; chairs; chest; chippendale; church; clocks; country; day; designs; desk; drawers; dutch; eighteenth; empire; england; english; family; feet; figure; fine; following; foot; french; furniture; glass; gold; good; great; half; hall; handles; hepplewhite; history; house; household; illustration; inches; john; king; leather; left; legs; little; london; louis; mahogany; makers; mass; men; music; new; oak; old; ones; ornament; period; philadelphia; pieces; place; rich; room; set; sheraton; silver; style; table; time; william; wood; work; years; york cache: 47917.txt plain text: 47917.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 51626 author: Candee, Helen Churchill title: Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut date: None words: 13448 flesch: 67 summary: [Illustration: Plate III--LATE TUDOR BED With motifs which characterised early Jacobean carving, dated 1593] The pity of it is, that no sooner had the artistic eye of the true collector begun to search for seventeenth century furniture than the commercial eye of the modern manufacturer began to make hideous variations on its salient features. Three of the four chairs in the plates illustrate this so well that it is worth while to make a comparison with old Italian chairs. keywords: art; carving; century; chairs; charles; early; england; english; furniture; illustration; jacobean; legs; mary; oak; plate; queen; styles; time; walnut; william cache: 51626.txt plain text: 51626.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 54602 author: Pollen, John Hungerford title: Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork date: None words: 38990 flesch: 66 summary: Their history perhaps belongs rather to that of painters than of our present subject; but they are too much mixed up with eighteenth century furniture not to find mention even in a sketch like the present. Much early eighteenth century furniture was bombé, or rolled about in curious curves or undulations of surface, partly to display the skill of the cabinet-makers, and partly to show off the marquetry, which formed its only decoration. keywords: a. |; art; artists; b. |; cabinets; centuries; century; chairs; chests; country; de |; decoration; england; english; fifteenth; form; france; french; furniture; general; gold; greek; houses; illustration; ivory; j. |; kensington; kind; king; marquetry; mediæval; metal; museum; objects; panels; period; pieces; renaissance; roman; rome; rooms; silver; sixteenth; south; tables; use; wood; woodcut; woodwork; work; | |; |16th; |18th; |italy | cache: 54602.txt plain text: 54602.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 56467 author: None title: A Book of Distinctive Interiors date: None words: 15419 flesch: 66 summary: [Illustration: The stairs that rise from this living-room are designed to take up as little room as possible. [Illustration: Such architectural features as beamed ceilings should only be used in rooms of pretentious size. keywords: chairs; color; design; dining; fireplace; floor; furniture; house; illustration; kitchen; light; living; paper; room; table; treatment; wall; white; woodwork cache: 56467.txt plain text: 56467.txt