The partners’ desk is always reminiscent of a solicitors’ office or something to do with business, and the term ‘partners’ actually originates from (more…)
There is no doubt that sitting upright in a Victorian wing chair is much better for (more…)
Where Victorian furniture, through mass manufacture, celebrated many past styles, the Edwardian era was more (more…)
When buying antique furniture, size is all important. A large Victorian sideboard, for example, can (more…)
With large numbers of houses having conservatories these days, an expanding market in (more…)
Knowing what types of wood were being used to make 18th century English furniture is a good indicator of (more…)
Thomas Chippendale in 18th century antique furniture terms was a real superstar of his day and his designs were much (more…)
Plumbing is a fairly recent phenomenon in Britain and as with most innovations of this kind it was (more…)
At a time when follies were being built for no purpose rather than just to decorate the landscape and all sorts of weird and wonderful inventions were being exploited for financial gain, antique furniture itself was (more…)
Living in multicultural Britain, it is often hard to settle on something that is quintessentially British. The monarchy for the royalists amongst us comes to mind or perhaps (more…)