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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 40452, member: 25"]<i>Thanks I had been looking at all the old furniture styles but they all seemed to blend together to me</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Around 1900, that's what they did for the makers, too. They designed by blender, bit of this, bit of that. Artistically you'd call it the incoherent period, neither fish nor fowl not good red herring. Queen Anne legs, Sheraton bodies, Regency touches here and there, Early Victorian splats, all with well stuffed seats.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good practical well made stuff that will do another hundred years and may well be back in fashion in ten.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 40452, member: 25"][I]Thanks I had been looking at all the old furniture styles but they all seemed to blend together to me[/I] Around 1900, that's what they did for the makers, too. They designed by blender, bit of this, bit of that. Artistically you'd call it the incoherent period, neither fish nor fowl not good red herring. Queen Anne legs, Sheraton bodies, Regency touches here and there, Early Victorian splats, all with well stuffed seats. Good practical well made stuff that will do another hundred years and may well be back in fashion in ten.[/QUOTE]
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