Archive for the ‘18th Century Sideboards’ Category

19th Century Sideboards

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

SIDEBOARDS
The sideboard, as distinct from the side table or sideboard table, is generally attributed to Robert Adam, who showed his first designs some time after 1760. The original design contains within it, when the side pedestals are removed, the nucleus of the eighteenth century sideboard and its later developments.
The Adam brothers were dedicated to Roman [...]

Antique 18th Century Sideboards. English, French, German, Italian Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Eighteenth Century English, French, German and Italian Sideboards.
1700`s sideboards designs based on the French Rococo shape were still popular in the latter half of the 18th century The shape of the sideboard was slow to adopt Neoclassical
styling and, until the 1780s, sideboards with undulating curves and cabriole legs, like those of Rococo sideboards, continued to [...]

Antique Empire and Regency Style Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

French Empire Style Sideboards
Empire sideboards were first hand made in 1802 of the Voyage daps la Basse et Haute Egypte, a collection of drawings by Baron Vivant-Denon, who had accompanied Napoleon on his excursion to Syria and Egypt in 1798-1801, heightened the interest in Egypt that Napoleon’s campaign had itself generated.
Sideboards designed by Napoleon’s architects, [...]

Antique 18th Century Neo Classical and Adam Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Antique Neo Classical and Adam Sideboards
English Neo Classical sideboard. The satinwood and yew tambour shutter opens to reveal a fitted desk interior. Beneath this is a long drawer with a frieze. The scrolling foliage pattern, brass ring pulls, and etched
wyverns are all typical Neoclassical motifs. The sideboards has square, inlaid, tapering legs and brass feet [...]

18th Century Antique French Sideboards. 1700`s Rococo Louis XV Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

XVIII Century Antique French Sideboards. 1700`s  Rococo Louis XV Sideboards.
18th Century French sideboards were handmade after accession of Philip of Orleans as French Regent upon the death of Louis XIV in 1700 marked the beginning of a transition from the unaccommodating formalities of the Baroque towards the more animated Rococo. The migration of the French [...]