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Furniture InformationHardwood Floors For Interior Design And For House Decorating
by:
Matthew Anderson
Victimisation , based on furnishings
of the eighteenth century may be discussed from several points of view. However, what most folk realize is the distinguish details of tables ready-made from that century. Dinner and wine tables were several of those pieces of furnishings
that could add a several touch of class to your interior decorating. Discover from the history of furnishings
book, by Town
Litchfield ideas on how Eighteenth century furniture, from the earliest to the present time.
To the latter part of the eighteenth century the English furnishings
of which time has been discussed on the site belong the quaint little "urn stands" which were ready-made to hold the urn with boiling water, spell the tea pot was placed on the little slide which is drawn out from underneath the table top. In those days tea was an dear luxury, and the urn stand, of which there is an illustration, adorned in the fashion of the time, is a dainty relic of the past, together with the old mahogany or marquetry tea caddy, which was sometimes the object of extensive skill and care. They were fitted with two and sometimes three bottles or tea-pays of silver or Battersea enamel, to hold the black and green teas, and once
actually nice examples of these daintily-fitted tea caddies are offered for sale, they bring large sums.
Eighteenth Century Wine Tables
The wine table of this time deserves a word. These are now somewhat rare, and are only to be found in a few old houses, and in several of the Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. These were found with revolving tops, which had circles turned out to a slight depth for each glass to stand in, and they were sometimes shaped like the half of a flat ring. These latter were for placing in front of the fire, once
the outer side of the table formed a good-time circle, round which the sitters gathered after they had left the dinner table.
One of these old tables is still to be seen in the Hall of Gray's Inn, and the writer was told that its fellow was broken and had been "sent away." They are nearly always of nice rich mahogany, and have legs much or less ornamental according to circumstances.
A identifying
feature of English furnishings
of the last century was the partiality for private secret drawers and contrivances for concealing
away papers or valued articles; and in old secretaries and writing tables we find a great many an ingenious designs which inform
us of the days once
there were but few banks, and folk unbroken
money and deeds in their own custody.
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