Stepping into a vintage store or strolling through a local estate sale usually means running into a lot of heavy Colonial Revival furniture from the 1970s. Chunky maple trestle tables and bulky pine ...
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Original British Colonial furniture was a style born of homesickness. Nineteenth Century English settlers in East Africa, Burma, India and Barbados during the expansion of the British Empire found ...
Drive through Los Angeles neighborhoods like Beverly Hills, Glendale and Los Feliz, and you’ll see a concentration of Spanish Colonial-style homes. On the exterior, you can’t miss the stucco facades, ...
TO THE LAYMAN’S eye, the four ball-and-claw furniture feet look the same: carved claws grip carved ball. But to Ray Journigan, they tell stories of period cabinetmakers in four places. When found on ...
Colonial Williamsburg is starting a new archaeology project that hopes to shed light on prolific Scottish cabinetmaker Peter Scott. Archaeologists will soon start excavating a site across from Bruton ...
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