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Furniture Stores Vancouver - For Beautiful & Functional Antique Furniture

Purchase of antique furniture comes with dual appeal. Leading antique furniture stores have been offering furniture that's both functional and beautiful. Nothing can add more grace to your home interior than antique furniture. Carefully selected pieces of antique chairs, tables or other antique furniture can be considered as fine creations of craftsmanship and also offer financial gain later. With the sole aim of offering authentic products, a
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What Makes a Victorian Chair Elegant and Sylish Even Today

Whenever we talk of the elite Victorian Chairs, we have an undying image of the queen sitting on one of these classy seats and having her breakfast in a peaceful locale. Now, at present, the scene is no longer a reality and times have changed at a speed which can well be compared to the space age. Nonetheless, the undying legacy of the elite Victorian Chairs never fails to haunt the living rooms of the rich and famous, who simply love to boast of
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The Popular Styles And Influential Eras Of Antique Furniture

Gothic is often recognized as the earliest official furniture style, beginning in the 17th Century. Most gothic pieces were constructed of oak and featured simple, yet heavy, designs. It was directly inspired by the architecture at the time, rarely containing curved lines and focusing more on right angles. Some of the most admired gothic pieces originated in France and became known for their foliage detailing, such as vines. For the duration of t
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A Corner Chair Makes Odd Spaces Work

Whether you have a small space or you have an oddly spaced room that you're having trouble finding the right furniture for, a corner chair can help you solve the problem. Unlike conventional chairs which don't fit well into tight corners, corner chairs have backs on two sides making them comfortable to sit in when placed in a corner. These chairs work great in entries, kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms. One area that corner chairs are often us
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Robert Gillow and Lancashire Buck the North South Antiques Divide

Lancashire does not always generally come to the mind as a centre for cultural and artistic excellence when compared to other areas of the UK. However, in the antiques world, Lancaster in particular has been heralded as an antique furniture hot spot where the north south divide between London and the rest of the country has had little effect. This may have something to do with the well known provincial furniture maker, Robert Gillow, who worked
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Antique Restoration is Both an Art and a Science

Antique furniture refers to those interior furnishings that are of significant age. Generally, these furnishings function as human support fixtures such as beds, tables, and chairs; or storage equipment such as cabinets, drawers, shelves, and the like. Apart from playing functional roles in the daily existence of men, antique furniture also function as decorations and designs in one's home. Antiques can also be in the form of religious or cultur
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How to Spot Assyrian Antique Furniture

Assyrian art was similar in style to Babylonian art. The best-known surviving examples are sculptures and wall decorations in bas-relief, and colossal stone winged lions or bulls that guarded the entrances to palaces and other buildings. Assyrian furniture was also designed with animal shapes. Mainly of bulls, lions, and rams heads. Wood and metal sofas and tables inlaid with ivory were most common. The earliest Assyrian chair was made without a
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Jacobean Style Antique Furniture

Jacobean is a term used to cover all English style furniture from the reign of King James I to King James II. However, throughout this span of time Jacobean furniture showed markedly different influences. The earliest Jacobean furniture was influenced mainly by Elizabethan (1603 -1688) styled furniture. Commonwealth Style (1649-1660) marks the middle of the Jacobean Period, when the furniture was of simpler design and undecorated. The late Jacobe
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The Best Way To Differentiate Between A Genuine Antique, Renewed, Reproduction And Also Retro Furniture - A Quick Tutori

There are a lot of myths around the terms antique, reproduction and vintage furniture. You can also find lots of fake pieces of furniture that are designed to deliberately deceive the potential buyer, so when buying an antique great care needs to be used. An antique, irrespective of whether furniture or other item, isn't officially described, but an item can be classed as an antique if it is more than one hundred years old. A vintage product is c
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An Introduction to Antique Furniture

Furniture has been a domestic necessity in all civilisations, ancient to modern (and in-between) and has been produced in large quantities over the centuries. Developed from humble beginnings whereby the furniture was constructed out of simple designs by and large cut straight from one section of a tree to more advanced skilfully constructed pieces made possible by more advanced construction and woodwork techniques. The basic requirements and cat
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Why Choose Antique Wicker Furniture

While it is true that time shortens the mortality of things, time also preserves its worth. This means that things grow more valuable over time. Although, this does not practically hold true for things that degrade and diminish, this certainly is appropriate for things that are of quality and those that withstand time, including furniture. Furniture dates back in the early civilization of Ancient Egypt. Although furniture during the early civiliz
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Antique Furniture Basics

Antiques may be of many different kinds and of all the antique collectibles and furniture happens to be the most popular and practical choice. Antique furniture is distinct from other categories of antiques in the sense that no one collects the same type of object repeatedly. It means that you would not want to buy and collect only tables or chests and fill up your home with everything the same. However, you may have a specific liking to certain
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Some of the Antique Makers and Designers

The majority of English cabinet-makers are known to us only by their names; only rarely is it possible to say who made a particular piece. When this can be done it is for one of two reasons: either because the original bill has been preserved, or because the name of the maker was inlaid, stamped or printed on a paper label inside the article. The following are some brief notes on a very few of the more important designers and makers who worked in
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The Best Way to Identify Antiques

One of the most well known timbers is the Mahogany, which is mostly imported from the nations like Cuba, San Domingo, Bahamas and Honduras. It is red-brown. There are others trees that have come to be known as Mahogany but they are not actually Mahogany. Cuba produces the best variety of Mahogany during the second half of the eighteenth century. Mahogany is one of the best timber to work with and easy to maintain. At one time Queen Anne walnut f
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Antique Furniture

An American view .. An antique is typically described as a curio or furniture that is more than a hundred years old. Many people like to decorate their homes with furniture that is antique in nature. Carved wooden ornamental and period furniture best represents this kind of ornamentation. Antique furniture predominantly with wooden carvings allows you to recreate a period lifestyle in your living room, making it distinctive and keeping with the s
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Antique Desk Furniture Historical Comparison

I finally realized it is not a Western desk; it is an English desk from the early 20th century. The clues are the wood itself and the hardware. English oak from this period has a distinctively different grain from the Golden Oak of American furniture of this period. The oversized hardware is also distinctly English. The odd pattern of shading was caused by someone stripping the original dark finish but giving the hardware areas a wide berth, crea
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The History of Chairs

'Chair' doesn't this word seem so familiar. There will hardly ever be a person who haven't heard this word and haven't used it. Chair is one of the most commonly used objects by the mankind. It is a raised platform or a surface used commonly by a single person to sit on. Chairs are used everywhere starting from our home to other public places like theatres, restaurants, parks, auditoriums, sea shores, resorts, clubs, and even in office buildings.
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Antique Furniture Restoration

Furniture restoration is heard in a selection of settings. If you like observing DIY shows, shows that help establish the value of antiques, like the Antique Road Show on PBS and other similar programs, you can sometime end up looking around your house and thinking you have got some furniture restoration projects you would not mind taking on yourself. Some furniture restoration projects are reasonably simple and easy. Dumping a waxy build-up on
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Antique Lamps - A Greek Subject Lamp of Gods and Men

'Classical Greece', meaning, authoritative: of recognized authority or excellence; 'the definitive work on Greece'; or, relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilization and its culture. This interpretation of the term 'classic' clearly defines the Greece of 500 BC, which has constantly re-inspired the Western world. The well known Athenian Acropolis, the temple to Athena, being a perfect example of classical Greek architectu
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How to purchase Antique Lighting

If you are restoring your old home or decorating a new one in an antique style, antique lighting is one irresistible component of the decor, you may want to consider. You can get online to find the right antique light fixture for your home. Consider the age, era and style of the antique lighting to match your home when choosing antique lighting. A Victorian home would call for an entirely different type of antique light from the one for a modern
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