Colonial Williamsburg is all about dressing up for the 18th century, getting period details just right, down to the chairs. Meet Leroy Graves, the remarkable man who, for more than three decades, has ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Not many years ago, when someone in the United States spoke of Colonial furniture, the term was generally understood to refer to American Colonists’ adaptations of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch and ...
The piece of furniture tucked in a West Ashley storage shed for years might not have attracted much interest had it sat in an antique shop, especially if no one noticed the carving on top. Its finish ...
The piece of furniture tucked in a West Ashley storage shed for years might not have attracted much interest had it sat in an antique shop, especially if no one noticed the carving on top. Its finish ...
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