The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways

Under the broad head of Colonial Furniture may really be classed all the "movables and chattels" which belonged to the early settlers, while to be entirely correct, this charact...

With the revival of interest in all "antiques," which is so widely spread at this time, any of us who chance to own an old piece of furniture feel an added degree of affection f...

The glory of the French Renaissance had begun to wane when Louis XIII. came to the throne in 1614, and by the time of his death in 1643 it had become hardly more than a traditio...

Contrivances for the measurement of time are of such antiquity that the first such implement is wrapped in the mysteries of a forgotten past. Before any mechanical form had been...

In studying the various periods into which different makes of furniture may be divided, the accentuating of one point, say of ornaments or the structural peculiarities, is noted...

The evolution of the piano from the clavichord occupied the attention of musicians for over three hundred years, or from 1404, when the earliest record occurs, to 1720, when Cri...

The increased market offered to English merchants in the colonies, now more prosperous, produced in quick succession several cabinet-makers who worked in a different style from...

We have seen by the middle of the century, 1750, how many comforts were obtainable at the large centres, and how many cabinet-makers were at work in the Colonies. About 1756 the...

Miss Singleton, in her exhaustive book "Furniture of Our Forefathers," says that probably the first pieces of furniture that were landed on the shores of the Hudson came in the...

in the eighteenth century the other great cabinet-makers came along, each with his distinctive styles and characteristics. The first of these is Hepplewhite, who never achieved...

In the manufacture of furniture at one time or another nearly every variety of wood has been used, if not for the body of the frame, then for its enrichment, and every quarter o...

71. Bedroom of Anne of Austria at Fontainebleau 72. Bed of Louis XIV at Versailles 73. Chairs of the Period of Louis XIV 74. Tapestry Furniture 75. Commodes of the Time of Louis...

57. Room in Whipple House, Ipswich, Mass. 58. Carved and Gilded and Mahogany Mirror-Frames 59. Mahogany Desk and Chest of Drawers 60. Combined Bookcase and Desk 61. Field Bed 62...

27. Room in Whipple House, Ipswich, Mass. 28. Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite Chairs 29. Adam Chairs 30. Hepplewhite Chairs 31. Hepplewhite Card-Table 32. Hepplewhite Set...

1. Old Oak Bedstead 2. Olive-Wood Chest 3. Old Oak Chest 4. Chest with One Drawer 5. Oak Chest on Frame (English) 6. Spanish Leather Chair 7. Turned Chair with Leather Cover 8....

44. Kitchen at Deerfield, Mass. 45. William Penn's Table 46. Rush-Bottomed Chairs 47. Connecticut Chest 48. Mahogany Desk 49. Corner Cupboard 50. Banquet-Room, Independence Hall...

18. Kitchen, Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. 19. Chippendale Chairs 20. Chippendale Chair 21. Carved Cedar Table 22. Chippendale Chairs 23. Chippendale Candle, Tea and Music Stands...

84. Organ in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S. C. 85. Spinet 86. Harpsichord 87. Cristofori Piano 88. Harp 89. Bass Viol 90. Glass Harmonica 91. Geib Piano 92. Nuns Piano 93....