Bob Courtney Auctions is selling this 3-piece bedroom set on Ebay at the moment and the sale will be ending today. The have listed it as an “Eastlake Aesthetic Movement” set and I’ve been mulling over this categorization and haven’t yet come to grips as to whether it falls cleanly into that genre or ...
Unique, strange, out-of-ordinary, practical or useful - pots can be described in many ways, some of them are pieces of art that communicate concepts and ideas, others we use in our daily lives, they decorate our kitchens and dining rooms. This the first, out of a series of articles featuring unusual ...
By Donna Sapolin Designers will tell you that spaces speak in different tongues and tones. In the language of beams, moldings, windows, and doorways, they speak openly about attributes that can be played up or down to their advantage. In the hushed and jumbled language of paint layers, dark corners, ...
One of the questions we are occasionally asked by Victorian homeowners is ” What colors should I use to paint my cornice molding? ” First of all, the color schemes we advise for painting cornices would logically also apply to ceiling rosettes and any other plaster work in the room, they being relate ...
One of our earliest attempts at the reproduction of an elaborate Victorian frieze was a pattern we named “Watkins Glen”. The dynamic design and coloring of this frieze was the work of Dr. Christopher Dresser and came directly from the chromolithographed frontispiece of his 1873 book “Principles of D ...
I very much admire the simplicity of pieces by Christopher Dresser. Just currently I have a good selection of a few classic designs which always send a shiver down my back when I see them! Christopher Dresser - Benham Froud Classics A PAIR OF ARTS & CRAFTS CANDLESTICKS A nice original pair of copper ...
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