IVINTAGE COTTAGE
We are a home-based business and have a large assortment of garden embellishment and home decoration to satisfy all your imaginable needs. Our online stock includes metal art, wall hangings, candelabras, “shabby chic”, and so much more.
FRENCH ART DECO FURNITURE
Wholesale French art deco furniture reproductions, antique art nouveau furniture,wholesale French art deco furniture supplier,art deco style furniture at wholesale prices.
STAMPSTUDIO
The Largest Stamp only site on the internet. Specializing in world stamps at 50% of catalog.
FRENCH QUARTERS ANTIQUES
We are direct importers of fine French antique furniture and accessories. We personally select antiques from Paris to Provence and bring them together in our French Quarters. Visit our store and see our astonishingly affordable prices.
FRENCH METRO ANTIQUE FURNITURE
Direct importers of exquisite French antique furniture and accessories from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries from large-scale armoires to one-of-a-kind chandeliers. Authentic antique pieces personally selected throughout France.
ANTIQUES OF FRANCE
19th French antiques and decorative art gallery.
ANTIQUE FURNISHINGS AND ANTIQUE FURNITURE FROM FRANCE AND EUROPE
Antique furnishings and furniture imported from Europe by DHS Designs. Featuring french antique furniture our collections include antique furnishings of all types; tables, chairs, beds and armoires.
ANTIQUE MARKET
Vintage, antique furniture, architectural iron, stained glass, windows, chandeliers, Art Deco, Victorian, Edwardian, lighting, tables, chairs, brass and iron beds, and lots more!
appointing country homes, manors and chateaus throughout Europe represent not only fine tables, chairs, beds and accesories, but exhibits the creativity and skill of European artisans. In our travels through continental Europe we have discovered many fine antiquities that you will find here on our website and for sale in our Maryland showroom. Ranging from armoires to tables of the finest walnut our furniture truly represents the interior design and styles of centuries past. In our collection of fine furniture you will even find unusual antique funishings from churches and other public buildings sure to inspire your creativity in the design of your home's interior decoration.
Our antique furnishings are directly imported from France and Europe. Rosenkavalier antiques also imports a variety antique decorative arts, antique garden ornaments and antique mantels also originating from France, Italy, and other areas of continental Europe abundant in sources of inspiration. Each of our antiques is personally selected for its unique appeal and intrinsic value. Our unusual antique collections, rich in style and taste, represent an era celebrating unsurpassed quality and beauty. Rosenkavalier antiques has become the antique furniture source for top interior designers around the country.
For centuries, armoires have commanded pride of place in French homes, treasured for their imposing presence and their ample storage capacity. Like most categories of furniture, the armoire traces its ancestry to the chest, from a time as far back as the Dark Ages when some clever French person turned a chest on its end and shoved it against a wall so that the lid would swing open as a door. From a cultural standpoint, this conversion from chest to armoire signals the beginning of a less nomadic and more prosperous lifestyle in which people no longer limited their furniture choices to whatever they could carry on their backs.
We add, frequently to this site, genuine information on antiques of all kinds. We've just started with antique furniture - make sure you start your visit in that area.
Our antique furniture area already covers Periods and Styles of English Antique Furniture, including the popular Tester Beds, antique cabinets, chairs and antique desks.
Just Some Furniture History and Interesting Facts
The first humans were nomads ( moved from place to place) and found what they needed about them from what nature provided. When they learned to cultivate the soil humans generally ceased living as hunter-gatherers. They established homes beside their cultivated land and meadows. At first these were simple huts of wood and reed, perhaps daubed with clay or mud. Later some of them learned to make homes built of nat ural stone and baked clay but this was more the exception than the rule.
The walls of their houses were often weaker than the solid timber doors. It is not surprising then that the ancient Greek word for a 'housebreaker' has the literal meaning of 'he who breaks through a wall'.
Early furniture
Humans only began to make furniture when they started to settle in a fixed place.
The early furniture was understandably very primitive and entirely utilitarian but gradually the appearance of furniture also began to have more importance and it became decorated. The furnishings of wealthy households became more refined and unified in style. The ancient Greeks and Romans had stools, three-legged footstools, easy- chairs, and forms of chaise lounge.
There were tables with one to four legs card tables and folding tables and also beds, plus large and small cabinets and chests. In Egypt these were made of different types of wood, leather, string, palm fronds, and reed. Luxury furniture was often decorated with glass and majolica with fittings of precious metal.
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