Antique Furniture Makers List

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Antique furniture makers list.

The list below reflects amg s assessment of the quality of furniture manufactured in the first half of the 20th century. Vintage mill werks is a boutique furniture manufacturing company specializing in hand crafted high quality vintage wood furniture. Charles and ray eames. Identifying antique american furniture styles.

This is a list of notable people whose primary occupation is furniture design. You can look online or at a library for a book such as english furniture and furniture makers of the 18th century or furniture of the depression era if your library doesn t have the book you want it can use an inter library loan to obtain it for you. Each piece of furniture we craft is bench made by hand by one of our skilled journeymen furniture makers production style manufacturing and modern machinery are two things you will never find inside our company. Ornamentation was created through the use of brackets grooves chamfers and geometric designs.

Antique furniture furniture makers makers mark antiques bing images stamps decor center table antiquities james shoolbred co bing images craftsman cottage craftsman bungalows arts and crafts furniture furniture design design movements johnson and johnson arts and crafts movement american handmade crafts. He is another mid century designer that has become collectible in the past 10 to 20 years. American furniture styles have seen a significant number of style periods since the early colonial era with each period being to some degree influenced by the pieces being built in europe generally england and france. Fred taylor is a antique furniture worthologist who specializes in american furniture from the late classicism period 1830 1850.

This is a victorian era company based in new york that made. Shapes of furniture from this style tend to be more rectangular. Hybrid of english styles with square lines solid construction. Many books on antiques provide information about the makers.

Norquist company 1881 at atlas furniture company 1882 carlson bloomquist and snow 1885 as well as a great number of firms launched early in the twentieth century such as the elk anchor allied acme active and level furniture companies. The first swedish manufacturer of furniture in jamestown augustus johnson began making doors in 1869 and beginning in the 1870 s the swedes organized a great number of furniture companies including the a. He is one of the great american makers of rococo revival style furniture. American furniture manufacturers were enthusiastic about this style since it was so easy to adapt for mass production.