Posts Tagged ‘sheraton’

A Mahogany Sheraton Style Single Chair - Country Sheraton Design Armchair - Chair of the Early Regency Period

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

A Mahogany Sheraton Style Single Chair - Country Sheraton Design Armchair  -  Chair of the Early Regency Period
A Sheraton design chair of considerable workmanship. Many such chairs are to be found painted in white and gilt or otherwise having painted decoration on birch or beech wood. In the main the painted versions are
more highly sought [...]

Country Chair of c. 1800 - Regency Chair - A Regency Period Library Chair - A Gillows Chair - Balloon-Back Victorian Chair in Walnut

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Country Chair of c. 1800 -  Regency Chair - A Regency Period Library Chair - A Gillows Chair - Balloon-Back Victorian Chair in Walnut
A very simplified country chair of c. 1800. The design owes something to Sheraton in the tapering front legs and squared style of the back. The two horizontal rails are very [...]

Antique English Sheraton Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

CHAIRS: SHERATON
About 1780-1810
Designs for chair backs from Thomas Sheraton’s Drawing Book (1792).
Although contemporary with Hepplewhite and sharing many features, antique chairs of Thomas Sheraton (published between 1791 and 1803), exerted a broader and longer-lasting influence. A designer, not a practising cabinet maker, Sheraton illustrated both English and French styles, many of them anticipating the Regency [...]

Antique Country Chairs

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

CHAIRS — country
Windsors did not have a monopoly on pleasing country chairs and designs and serious students of country chairs keep unearthing particular local examples, some of them very attractive. In addition, the nineteenth
century saw the mass-production of many satisfying designs for the enormous demand from the manufacturing towns — for house, office and institution [...]