Favorite Era of Furniture

I love all antiques but I definitely have my favorite eras that are just hard to say no to.

I love empire buffets and dressers

I love early southern furniture and its simplistic "rawness"

1940s duncan phyfe - not so much the dining table and harp chairs, but give me a drum table, buffet or any kind of bankers chair

The 1840s - 1880s is probably my most favorite decades

 

I like deco and retro I think because I grew up with it all over my relatives homes.

 

I am a sucker for glass-topped coffee tables and old mirrors.

 

I have a few pieces of Heywood Wakefield from the late 50's that I really like. A bookcase ontop of a chest of drawers, Dining room table and chairs, lazy Susan round table, night stand, and a King size bed. Everything needs a good cleaning as I want to preserve the original finish.

 

I am an arts and crafts period enthusiast. While I love American versions, the English and Scottish versions are nearer my heart. I also like true Biedermeier furniture but don't own any. Some of the East coast Empire comes close and I have an Empire chest I restored and love. Art Deco can get my blood racing on occasion and I have a killer French lamp table that I have yet to restore. MCM is cool and I own some but am not a serious collector.

 

Art deco art and lamps (those slag glass lamps!) I absolutely love, the furniture, ehh.

Mid century glass is about the only thing from the 50s and 60s I like (about the only period of glass I like)


Brass Art Nouveau fern stands I love as well.
I bought a marble top one for $30 once and flipped it for $200 about a year ago.
Still regret it, even with the profit it brought.

 

Im a sucker for mirrors too!

 

Hi,
I have all kinds of furniture in my house. The neighbors think it is a museum. They all bought 1990s furniture new into their retirement home. They all have white walls, green or pink wall to wall carpeting. When they walk into my place with Mission furniture, Queen Anne, Victorian and Deco stuff everywhere. They are amazed. Everyone was a afraid to hang pictures and stuff on these new walls. My walls are red some grey some beige, all have light blue ceilings (to keep cob webs and bugs away). I tiled the floors and have oriental carpets on them, just about every wall is covered with pictures, shelves and cabinets etc. My one neighbor was telling me about how she had bought a Lenox vase for her house and was so proud. She almost stroked when she walked into mine. One shelf had 25 Lenox vases on it. I told her I loved Lenox and had over 150 pieces plus a dinner set for 12. She laughed and said "how did I afford it all." I laughed and said most of it I got at yards sales for 3 or 4 dollars apiece or cheaper some 50 cents.
greg

 

My mother collected Early American furniture. So my tendency has been toward strong clean lines. I have a mix of everything. Tend toward the fruitwood colors, although I have a Stickley Bros book case.

For the life of me I do not know why I can not pass up an interesting chair of any period. I have more chairs than I have places to put them.

 

mid brown solid oak from England in the early 1900's...
Jacobean twists, & barley corn twists.

 

My first love will always be early American ,but Victorian is a close second . Truthfully though , I like stuff from all periods if it calls to me .

 

The best stuff is the best stuff, regardless of when it was made. I'm usually most enthusiastic about the thing I haven't seen previously.

 

My favourite is definitely Victorian. Belter furniture, potted palms, Haviland Limoges china, etc. I also have moments of moderne and Deco.

 

hmmm...well I've always been a fan of simple 18th C furniture but I have very little of it. My second favorite would fall in the MCM arena. I have a bit of everything because, as in all things, I don't limit my likes.

 

We used to have a green formica kitchen table with matching green chairs. I saw a blue one recently, but it was too messed up..... I want a blue one.

 

I saw a formica set in someone's house, the chairs were JEWELED!!!!!