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SUITES - Exquisite, hand made - one off bedroom furniture.
With
its artful combination of quality, style and practicality - our
beautiful Bedroom Suites are made to create a perfect comfort zone for
You and Your
family. Great choice of high quality
bedroom furnishings available - to suit
your taste!
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| OLYMPIA
- 4 piece Bedroom Suite. |
EKATERINA
- 4 piece Bedroom Suite. |
KANTATA
- 4 piece Bedroom Suite. |
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Read more about different styles and epochs in furniture designs:
CLASSICISM
Classicism of the end of XVIII century is a
tribute of great century of furniture art to antique art forms. In France where
new style is called “the style of the Lui XVI”, classicism was the last in a
number of "Royal styles ".
The principle of a period separation based
on "kings" carries rather conditional character. A similar sort of the
separation based on "kings" is even less justified for other
countries.
Having appeared all over again in
architecture, forms of classicism gradually got into an “applied” art,
including the furniture. Whimsically carved forms and a dynamic ornament of a
rococo begun "to calm down" already in the middle of 18th
century. Lines are straightened; partitioning of surfaces become more and more
simple and clear.
In search of samples for new furniture
forms, the masters of mature classicism looked up to the Ancient Greece and Rome. Clearness and a
harmony of proportions, quiet balance of parts now start to dominate over forms
of furniture. The preference is given to direct lines; the decor is reduced only
to the most necessary. Here the architectonic beginning is not so expressed
as for example, in the Renaissance furniture and is lacking that unity of
details in uniform weight what was characteristic for products of a rococo. In
classic furniture the constructive principle again is emphasized and this
purpose is served also with fabric - which lines obediently repeating the
outlines of surfaces of the furniture pieces.
Distinction between an old and new
principle of construction is easily found on comparison of a design of
furniture legs. In difference from baroque furniture the design of legs
carries plastic, instead of architectonic character. In classic furniture the
leg is treated differently: function of basic designs as bearing elements is
again emphasized; they are carried out and assimilate to small, round from top
to bottom round or square columns in section with a capitella and cannelure.
The
Soft elements of chairs and armchairs are upholstered, as a rule, with fabrics
bearing a flower ornament; backs oval or quadrangular. In furniture for sitting
the role of a carved element was still great. The rich upholstery, gilding,
strict forms are giving it solemn, cold look. In new furniture bronze is pushed
aside and used on basic elements and frames, eaves are profiled to resemble the
antique sample. Sometimes, especially in more expensive products, in the center
of a panel a small detail, made from gold plated bronze of the quadrangular or
oval form is located.
In an
ornament antique motives begin to prevail: meanders, strings of pearl,
scallops, flower or laurel garlands, sockets and an acanthus leaf. Color varnishes
(white and green) in a combination with simple gilding of separate details are
also being used.
One of
the major items of interior was a secretary with the cubic case raised on high
legs. Lockers sometimes were built on shelves (commode - étagère).
Little
tables-consoles, screens, hours, various supports were decorated with a thin
groove, flower garlands and allegoric figures. Wooden parts of furniture for sitting and
lying were processed by a groove of a low relief, gilding or a white varnish.
Upholstery materials used - a Gobelin tapestry, silk fabrics with a flower
ornament etc…
The
mahogany, going mainly on veneer of furniture pieces - was the most often used. Mahogany panels
are inlaid with sets from various color, quite often exotic breeds of a tree
(sateen, pink, etc.). Frames are often carried out by breeds of more dark
shades (a thuja, black rosewood, ebony). An impression is made with the items
painted by a white varnish and touched by gilding.
Widely
used were fauns, cupids that appear in a decor except for earlier mentioned
forms, sphinxes, blockheads and mythological plots.
An interesting furniture form has been developed for dining
rooms: strictly
symmetric sideboard grouped from three parts representing a combination
of
buffet and a dumbwaiter. Greater variety forms of furniture for sitting
appear: both very easy chairs and armchairs with openwork,
upholstered backs of the oval, round or rectangular form;
armchairs and a canapés with the forms that descent directly
from antique
samples.
Most commonly used
motives of finishing of openwork backs were: three lancet arches interlining with
each other; palm leaves which form a shape of a fan; the vertical rod solved in the form
of a plume.
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