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Antique Furniture
When people talk about antique furniture these days, they’re usually referring to pieces made from the late 1800s through the Depression years of the 1930s. While some of these pieces can be pretty, especially the Victorian styles with ornate carving and lovely grained wood, they’re still not quite the cream of the crop.
We carry many, many side boards, servers and china cabinets to choose from. Many styles and woods to choose from, such as oak, birch, maple, cherry, walnut, mahogany and others, from the Colonial period, Victorian era and Arts & Crafts.
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Wide variety of china cabinets such as: • Dish Dressers • Hunt Boards • Servers • Flat Front China Cabinets • Bow Front China Cabinets • ...too many to mention. |
The top of the heap in American furniture was produced in the thirteen original colonies from the mid to late 1600s through the first part of the 19th century.
In the 1870s and 1880s, American dining room decor underwent a transformation from heavy, dark furniture and a masculine emphasis on the acquisition of raw foodstuffs to light, blue-and-white decoration and a feminine emphasis on the presentation of fine cuisine. The emergence of the Dutch dining room epitomized a feminizing effort to introduce greater civility and moral refinement to society through domestic decoration in a room regularly visited by family, friends, and colleagues.
The sideboard was an English furniture form that evolved from three separate pieces - a long table flanked by two cabinets. American cabinetmakers - first the urban design centers and then later in the country - copied and adapted the sideboard from the English furniture stylebooks. Hepplewhite's designs were a particular favorite (Country Antiques and Collectibles, edited by Carter Smith)...
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Remember!...the BEST time to buy an antique is when you see it! It may not be here when you come back!
