Period Furniture
How to Identify an Antique Windsor Chair and Its Age
You have found a spindle-back chair at an estate sale for $180, the seller calls it an antique Windsor chair, and you have...
Topic
Identifying, dating and valuing antique chairs, tables and cabinets, with notes on construction methods and condition grading.
Period Furniture
You have found a spindle-back chair at an estate sale for $180, the seller calls it an antique Windsor chair, and you have...
Period Furniture
Veneer has a bad reputation among new buyers, who tend to treat the word as a warning that a piece is cheap or not really...
Period Furniture
A chest of drawers can be refinished, reupholstered where it has fabric, and have its hardware swapped twice over without...
Period Furniture
I have taken apart three period card tables in my restoration career, two Georgian and one late Victorian, and each one taught...
Period Furniture
I spent five years working as a cabinet restorer before I started writing about furniture, and the joints are still where I...
Period Furniture
Victorian wicker and cane furniture was one of the great disregarded categories of the antique trade for about forty years,...