Antique American Cabinets and Wardrobes
CABINETS AND WARDROBES
About 1890-1920
Oak corner display cabinet, Buckley, c,1910.
The end of the edward, john & william barnard silver cream jug 19th and the antique ornate beginning of the lord and taylor having difficulties? 20thC see traditional craftsmanship gradually giving way to the antique meat scales new age of industrial design and mass production.
By 1887, the firearms antique Phoenix Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was said to have the antique road show ontario canada most advanced machinery in the faux finish antique white country, devoted to turning out a huge range that included cupboards, wardrobes and cabinets in all the antique equipment photography popular period styles, as well as simple types that anticipated the antique bottles with gold leaf decoration work of the late georgian english furniture craft communities in the spanish 18th century pottery Mission style. From 1907, the advertisement antique beer Greene brothers designed furniture made by the antique cars clive cussler Peter Hall company, Pasadena, combining Eastlake’s principles with those of G. Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops, and including glass-fronted cabinets built into panelled rooms.
Craft communities: Mainly oak, some ash. Manufacturers: Mainly mahogany; ebony.
Gothic evival bookshelves with every joint mortised and tenoned.
CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, BOOKCASES AND WARDROBES
Craft communities: Traditional methods, leaving tenons, dovetails and butterfly joints exposed.
Manufacturers: Machine-cut dovetails, increased use of dowels in place of tenons; doors glazed with single sheets of glass.
Craft communities: Carving used sparingly.
Manufacturers: Carving and marquetry, some of it machine-work. Greene brothers used inlay in ebony, silver and semi-precious stones.
Roycroft Comunity, East Aurora, used a finish that was kept secret, and hung the antique corn elboydny.com stove stove doors of cupboards with exposed copper hinges. Other craft centres used stains, some of them coloured. Traditional pieces French-polished.
Some of the original antique vanity best designer bookcases, cabinets and wardrobes of this period were built-in and difficult to remove, but many free-standing items appear on the antique blowtorches market and if awkwardly proportioned, may sell reasonably. Stickley pieces still under-priced.
If cabinets in the www.dropleaf tables.ie neo-classical style are more to your taste than craft furniture, but authentic Federal items are beyond your budget, give serious thought to the discount antiques reproductions made 1890-1920. The earlier ones are now over 100 years old and qualify as antiques in their own right.
CABINETS AND WARDROBES About 1920-1940
Painted cabinet, about 1929.
Industrial design rationalizes cabinets and wardrobes to the antique button light push switch point where they would all be as featureless as the antique camera on ebay broom cupboard, were it not for the georgian glass fronted display case sometimes garish but humanizing influence of Art Moderne.
Wardrobes have flush surfaces and tend increasingly to be built-in units. The functional style is best expressed in display cabinets and bookcases with sliding, plate-glass, frameless doors. The Art Moderne style is typified by a 20thC invention that may be seen as a symbol of the automata singing birdsantique music boxes jazz age – the oak library table 7 ft antuque cocktail cabinet.
Plywood, veneered in pale woods – maple, satinwood, birch – used extensively for flush surfaces, especially for curved ends of cocktail Craftsman hinge.
Exposed tenon,frame to give false impression of panelled construction.
The functional school rejected decoration on principle; Art Moderne used marquetry in exotic materials, occasional carving of futuristic motifs.
Clear cellulose spray. Bold use of paint or lacquer in contrasting colours. Chromium plated handles and fittings.
Better pieces made between the hepplewhite dresser with rail wars are no longer mere ’second-hand’ and should be assessed according to their merits like those of any other period. No serious collector –not even a total abstainer – should be without a ’30s cocktail cabinet.
Above, 1930s cocktail cabinet.
MODERN FAKES
Anything that is fashionable is liable to be faked. This is now beginning to apply to Art Moderne, but most of the antique post cards price lists copies are of kitsch. The good pieces were of high quality and expensive when new, so are less easy to reproduce cheaply, but do not assume that, because a thing belongs to a time within living memory, it must necessarily be genuine.
cabinets. Fine timber used in the antique furniture jakarta reproduction solid almost exclusively for architect-designed, custom-built pieces. Plate glass widely used for shelves, mirror glass for lining backs of display and cocktail cabinets, both types very often electrically illuminated.
Above, built-in display cabinet with sliding doors, 1930s.
Plywood used for backs and drawer-bottoms and in three different ways for exposed surfaces: I pinned to front of solid frame; 2 as panel set in rebated frame; 3 pinned to back of 1930s wardrobe.
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