Posts Tagged ‘Chippendale’
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
SIDEBOARDS
About 1770-1915
Inlaid mahogany bow-fronted sideboard, about 1780-1790.
Auseful piece of dining-furniture comprising a number of drawers and cupboards for the storage of cutlery, table linen, condiments and so on, which evolved during the 1770s from the very grand side-table and pedestal ensembles first designed by Robert Adam. In the late-18th/ early-19thC, they often incorporated a plate-warmer, [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
1700`s American Rococo Sideboards
In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Antique 18th Century Queen Anne Sideboards
18th Century French forms, and the French Rococo ornamental vocabulary, were extremely influential throughout Europe, where sideboards and other pieces in the relaxed Louis XV manner were made well into the century in Spain, Portugal, Italy, North America and elsewhere.
The supple, undulating forms created by Daniel Marot, Jean Berain and [...]
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