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How To Navigate Your Way Through American Furniture Styles
A lot of consumers quickly visualize European styles when they speak about antique furniture. The kind of furniture you’ll unearth in North American antique stores, though, is traditional American furniture. In the manner of its European counterparts, American furniture can be split up into a variety of varieties and time periods. The goal of this article is to basically identify the various sorts of classic American furniture, hoping that whenever you go antiquing, you’ll be able to have a sensible conversation with the store owner.
Both Early American and Pennsylvania Dutch furniture were really utilitarian, basic types of furniture. While Early American style is generally classified as existing earlier than 1700 and Pennsylvania Dutch past 1720, there exists a appreciable overlap between these two styles, and hardly any genuine pieces of either remaining. Early American furniture typically borrowed features from England and Holland. Pennsylvania Dutch furniture is the original New England furniture fashion and had strong and clear German flavor. Pennsylvania Dutch design and is indicated by colorful folk painting as an alternative to a plain or painted finish.
Colonial furniture generally combined the elements of the common European styles of the period, like William and Mary and Louis XIV. Distinguishing Colonial antiques from their European counterparts can be tough for the average consumer, though, thanks to the specific elements that define these styles, such as cabriole legs or fiddle-back chairs. The Chippendale style specifically influenced the form of furniture loveseats for quite a few years.
Federal style furniture initially was developed in the course of the colonial phase, but is drastically different in looks from colonial furniture. Federal-style furniture features a dainty appearance, tapered legs, and simple designs as opposed to the more baroque accessories that were characteristic of colonial furniture. Some sub-classifications of Federal style include Hepplewhite and Duncan Phyfe. American Empire furniture is a departure from the Federal style with more European style designs, but was produced during the Federal period.
Shaker Furniture will cause the typical collector much bafflement, merely for the reason that although “authentic” Shaker furniture was only made prior to the Civil War, Shaker furniture makers have continuously manufactured this furniture for more than a century with minimal variation in design or manufacturing methods. Shaker furniture is dark furniture normally characterized by simple forms, straight lines and a total absence of decoration.
The direct opposite of Shaker Furniture was Victorian furniture. Named in reference to the ruling monarch of England, Victorian furniture is recognized by stout proportions, dark finishes, and complicated carving. Strangely, Victorian furniture was considered the first furniture manufactured in factories rather than with hand tools. Following the turn of the 20th century, Victorian Furniture began to evolve into Art Nouveau variations, just as elaborate but more naturalistic and far more dainty looking.
Arts and Crafts furniture marked the demise the Victorian era by doing away with ornamentation completely, to opt for solid lines and chunky handles. This design is also called Mission furniture, particularly when a piece includes many vertical slats on a chair back or side panel.
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