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Carpenters in Suffolk - Building Trades Directory
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D and D Aldous. F A Valiant and Son. Guy Herbert Building Services. Is based in Sudbury and covers a wide range of carpentry skills with a specific specialisazion in second fix work that includes architrave, skirting and door hanging. AJG Carpentry have a reputation for being reliable and fast working. D and D Aldous. Based between Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury D and D Aldous. F A Valiant and Son Ltd, Building Contractors. F A Valiant and Son Ltd,. Building Contractors, specialise in Church and Listed Buil...
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English Custom Made Furniture: The Empire Style - England - Part 1
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English Custom Made Furniture. Monday, 2 July 2012. The Empire Style - England - Part 1. Published in 1799, proved invaluable to contemporary designers. In his furniture, Holland made use of darker woods, especially rosewood which began to replace satinwood for the best quality handmade furniture. Ormolu (gilt bronze) mounts and brass inlays were also beginning to be used in preference to marquetry or painted decoration. To be continued tomorrow. TouchwoodUK - English Custom Made Furniture. Victorian Fur...
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English Custom Made Furniture: June 2012
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English Custom Made Furniture. Friday, 29 June 2012. The Empire Style - The Netherlands. Napoleon adopted the same policy in the Netherlands as elsewhere by installing, in 1805, a member of his family as king - in this case, his brother Louis, who took the job seriously, tried to protect the country's interests and was forced to abdicate in 1810. There was barely time for him to get the old Town Hall in Amsterdam refurbished in 1808-09 with large quantities of handmade furniture. Thursday, 28 June 2012.
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English Custom Made Furniture: Gothic and Elizabethan Styles - Part 2 (final part)
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English Custom Made Furniture. Wednesday, 18 July 2012. Gothic and Elizabethan Styles - Part 2 (final part). The improved communications throughout Europe naturally affected the universality of appeal of designs, and the Gothic taste in handmade furniture. After Pugin's death, the torch was taken up in England by Bruce Talbert, who published in 1867 his Gothic Forms applied to Futniture. And by C.L. Eastlake in his Hints on Household Taste. Carcase furniture, when made in this idiom, was massive in the e...
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English Custom Made Furniture: The Empire Style - England - Part 5
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English Custom Made Furniture. Monday, 9 July 2012. The Empire Style - England - Part 5. Were of chinoiseries and oriental plant motifs, but Neoclassical scenes were also favoured. Penwork was taken up by ladies amateurs often very skilfully, and was a popular pastime well into the Victoria period. Of the Regency period was the use of metal for all sorts of decoration. TouchwoodUK - English Custom Made Furniture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Victorian Furniture - Neoclassicism continues. The Empir...
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English Custom Made Furniture: Victorian Furniture - neo-Rococo.
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English Custom Made Furniture. Friday, 13 July 2012. Victorian Furniture - neo-Rococo. The coarsening of the style is evidenced in the amount of show-wood on chairs, which grew greater as the period progressed, as well as in the infilling of the arms and backs entirely with upholstery, which was at first relatively flat but thickened progressively and eventually became deep-buttoned at the later dates. In the decoration of handmade furniture. Another piece most typically associated with the English Victo...
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English Custom Made Furniture: Victorian Furniture - neo-Rococo (final part)
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English Custom Made Furniture. Monday, 16 July 2012. Victorian Furniture - neo-Rococo (final part). France did not revert to the taste until some five years after Britain, although still ahead of Germany. The real impact of the style was not, however, felt until the beginning of the Second Empire, when it and other Louis styles once more became popular, reflecting an upsurge of national pride and a belief that the great days of France were returning. Pieces of handmade furniture. Fully exhibits the capab...
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English Custom Made Furniture: Victorian Furniture - The Biedermeier Style 1
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English Custom Made Furniture. Tuesday, 10 July 2012. Victorian Furniture - The Biedermeier Style 1. The middle-class strength was perhaps the most important influence on handmade furniture. The name Biedermeier derives from bieder. Making: the beginning of factory techniques. TouchwoodUK - English Custom Made Furniture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Victorian Furniture - Neoclassicism continues. Gothic and Elizabethan Styles - Part 2 (final part. Gothic and Elizabethan Styles.
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English Custom Made Furniture: Victorian Furniture.
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English Custom Made Furniture. Monday, 9 July 2012. It is also an almost inevitable concomitant of major wars that the centre of power shifts by an increase in the wealth and importance of the lower ends of the social strata with a corresponding and real reduction at the upper end. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the centre of political and economic power was shifting towards the middle classes. Logically, the history of fitted and non fitted furniture. TouchwoodUK - English Custom Made Furniture.
