Antique chairs

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I recently scored two free chairs that I am super excited to spruce up/refinish. The one on the left I literally picked up on the side of the road. I stopped to double check with the owners that they were, … Continue reading →

Velvet "gentleman's chair" from about 1888.

Two iconic French armchairs, the bergère and the fauteuil, are frequently misidentified. Although they are similar, they are two totally different chairs. My last blog post focused on the fauteuil. Now the spotlight is on the French bergère which came into vogue as comfortable seating quickly became all the rage in 18th century France. The bergère (ber zher'), French for “shepherdess”, was first seen in the Louis XV period. Louis XV enjoyed conversation and commissioned his chair maker…

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I recently received a quote to reupholster some chairs and was curious as to whether or not it was worth the investment?

Bold 18th century Portuguese period side chair with scroll and stylized lion tail carving, the upholstered balloon seat over scrolled and outward rolled apron, standing on boldly carved lion paw...

Even though this 5,200-square-foot heritage home in Vancouver’s Southlands neighbourhood was fully renovated, its owners, art and antique collectors with a young family, knew it needed freshening up. They enlisted designers Greer Nelson and Jamie Hamilton of Oliver Simon Design to balance the home’s traditional look with some modern flair. “Working with existing floor plans and collections […]

Tegnap este leütöttem négy nagyon különleges széket a Vaterán. Rákerestem a különböző szakértő portálokon, és megtaláltam, hogy ez a Thonet Nr 41-es, vagy egy másik katalógusban Nr 441-es szék. Ami érdekes, hogy a támla fa részének kialakítása nem befele olyan íves, mint az alábbi székeken, de megnéztem az 1906-os katalógusban (22. oldal) és valóban - külön kérésre - rendelhető volt "glatt", azaz sima profillal is. Kicsit aggódtam, hogy talán a nádazását szétszedték és rákárpitoztak (bár a…