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Post by misssue on Sept 21, 2014 3:35:52 GMT -5
Dayeanu, I took one look at your photos yesterday, and knew the headboard is considered Eastlake style of furniture. Named after Charles Eastlake, a designer and architect. It was a furniture style, from the late 1800s, about 1870 to 1900. SunshineHouse was partly right, some people think this is Modern Gothic, and Eastlake was British. It became a style of American though, and all the furniture is American made, and was popular at that time in the East here and the Midwest. I see the dressers and small parlor or hall tables more than anything here in the Midwest. I have seen some complete bedroom sets at big sales and some auctions.
It is considered Victorian, though it was actually considered cleaner and more minimal, at the end of that era. I know most of us would find that hard to believe, because it looks ornate to us. It had low relief carvings, incised lines, moldings, geometric ornaments, and flat surfaces that were easy to keep clean! I remember a dealer telling me that when I was young. I like the carvings. The low relief is that carving in your head board, on the left near the post. Because the previous style of Victorian furniture was heavy and ornate, carved and heavy dark upholstery. Dark heavy curtains in parlors.. so this was newer and more minimal by the previous era of furniture. Your lamp is Victorian too, but I do not believe it went with this style. The Eastlake is the predecessor to the Arts and Crafts movement, which went even plainer. All your pieces are very nice!
I like furniture, and have been buying vintage and some antique since I was 18. I do not have a lot of it in my home, a mix of old and new. I do when I have my act together, refinish wood pieces and resell it. The headboard is probably oak, as was most of this style Vacuum it with a brush to clean furniture that is dirty or dusty and detailed. I also use a air compressor to blow off dust but that is when I have it outside. Those are two quick ways to clear dust off furniture. Or a big paintbrush and some round brushes I have. I know some may freak out when I say this, but most of us in the furniture business, use water to clean wood furniture. Just damp old rags, the water is not on it long enough to do any harm. I am not hosing it off or drenching it. Often some pieces do not need to be refinished, but they can be re-waxed. I use a paste wax. Pledge is not desirable..AND this is probably way more info than you want to know!
PS, Google Eastlake Furniture, and click on images, and you will see similar. I did that after I posted. I am going to a big show next Sunday.. I would love a Eastlake dresser with the carving in low relief on the drawers. BUT I have, under my own personal rules, A no buying anything, until I sell what I have in the works. I have not bought any thing in 2 years because I have a garage and basement and one room full. Why I am at SOOS. My name is MissSue, and I have a furniture problem!
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Post by lucie on Sept 21, 2014 4:45:47 GMT -5
dayeanu, in one TV show I have seen they have used a soft tooth brush to clean all these intricate carvings in the wood. And I think they used a lemon oil to give it a shine when it was clean.
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Post by dayeanu on Sept 21, 2014 7:08:26 GMT -5
larataylor I did a little light research on the "swastika" quilt pattern. It is older than the Nazi use of it, and was a symbol of good fortune. I bet your college living arrangement WAS tense! @hordfest Maybe someone hid their Klan robes at your grandmother's house. I'm no expert by any means, but I have never heard of a woman being in the klan. misssue I am delighted to learn about the furniture! Mother does have a dresser and chiffarobe that goes with it. Apparently the covered wagon story is not correct. I know that the g.g. grandparents were here in 1850 because of courthouse records, but they could not have brought the bedroom furniture with them, as it had not been made yet! That's interesting, also, because the china I inherited is verified as 1870's - 1880's. I'll post a pic of the dresser. I'm not certain it is the same pattern, but it has always been called a "set."
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Post by dayeanu on Sept 21, 2014 7:26:59 GMT -5
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Post by dayeanu on Sept 21, 2014 7:31:51 GMT -5
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Post by dayeanu on Sept 21, 2014 7:38:50 GMT -5
I think it's funny that in the late 1800's THIS was considered minimalism! And I am moaning about how intricate it is! lucie GOOD IDEA about the brush. I'm also glad that it's OK to use water. I think it needs it!
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Post by larataylor on Sept 21, 2014 8:23:16 GMT -5
dayeanu - before we get back on the rails - that reminds of my college dorm days, when my room was sandwiched between those of a black South African and a white South African. I never saw any sparks fly. I think maybe they just never spoke to each other. That was the early 80s -- apartheid was still in full swing.
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Post by larataylor on Sept 21, 2014 8:32:52 GMT -5
Native Americans have a very ancient symbol that looks like a swastika except the "arms" go the opposite direction. Check to see which direction they go. Casper - the arms go to the right. Just Googled this, found on about.com: "The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck. Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II." (The article also mentions Native American use)
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Post by dayeanu on Sept 21, 2014 8:47:35 GMT -5
Native Americans have a very ancient symbol that looks like a swastika except the "arms" go the opposite direction. Check to see which direction they go. Casper - the arms go to the right. Just Googled this, found on about.com: "The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck. Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II." (The article also mentions Native American use) Very interesting! I recommend you use the quilt and dream about "the good that is to be," and don't let a long-gone hate-monger ruin that for you!
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Post by dtesposito on Sept 21, 2014 8:56:34 GMT -5
I'm really enjoying this thread!
Missue, thank you for the furniture lesson, I know very little about furniture, but I was trying to figure out what country I "felt" when I looked at the headboard. It looks like a mixture of different places to me, so was wondering where the style came from.
I LOVE old wooden furniture, but I don't like elaborate designs. Or maybe elaborate isn't the word, because I do like Mission style furniture--and that involves a lot of individual spaces to dust. I guess I like angular shapes instead of circles--it's the curlicues that look fussy to me. I also think a lot of that large, elaborate stuff was meant for very large rooms, and it looks funny in today's smaller spaces--so it would be the opposite of minimalism.
Diane
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Post by misssue on Sept 21, 2014 12:30:15 GMT -5
Dayneau, the dresser is so beautiful! I know the mirror top is Eastlake, but not too sure about the dresser portion. I am by no means an expert on furniture. The carved drawer pulls are more "fancy" and that may be Tiger eye or Tiger striped maple in the the drawer panels. Often people took the mirror top from one dresser, and attached it another piece, split them up to fit in a smaller room. Or they got separated in moving. Sometimes you can tell by looking at the back, see if it matches, or if they drilled new holes. It does not matter as they fit together. They look great!
I last night, wrote my previous post in the middle of the night, so forgive me being a bit disjointed, thought of a a couple dressers I have seen with the marble tops, and would love one. I agree too, that in smaller rooms or if you do not have high ceilings some of these pieces are big, though they fit in some of the MacMansions people built lately... though most do not want antiques.
Also your ladder back thrush bottom chair next to it, is very nice and very popular today! Goes with French decor, country, cottage, American.. I have a set of 6 and 8, in my basement. Two other small ones in my garage to be worked on! I love decor, and one reason I should get my house back to that, and get my inventory out of the living room! Fix it and sell it. I mix new with old, and one of my goals besides get my garage and living room inventory, is to use my own pieces. I have a coffee table, a bricklayer one, in my living room, Ballards, which I bought post divorce when I saved up and bought new carpet for a couple of rooms.. and painted. It is not put together.. That was 2010. I need to use my own house. Like many of us, I am not using the space I have.
Dtespostia. I do like Mission too, wish I would have bought Oak antique Stickley when I was young, and it was all over the place and cheap here in the Midwest. I have a new, not pure Mission dining room set. Well it is 15 years old, so not really new any more! When I moved in this organic stone and wood ranch house in the woods, my maple drop leaf table did not go with the place!
I have a mola, from South America. A fabric panel I got when I was in college, which was in the 70s! I was in the art department. When I got it home and had it for awhile.. I realized it was a big multi colored Swatiska! It was popular to frame molas, and I never really used it, that is all I could see when I looked at it. I still have it, in my stash in my sewing room downstairs! Maybe time to frame it and or use it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 13:16:45 GMT -5
Nah, it was my great granny. Dunno howit got there, maybe it was a halloween costume? But it is Georgia after all and back in the day. Maybe it was great granpas.
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Post by larataylor on Sept 21, 2014 15:35:56 GMT -5
I would never *wear* a swastika. I live on the east coast, USA, where there is a high concentration of Jewish people. But I guess having them in my bedroom is pretty safe.
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Post by outfromundah on Sept 25, 2014 20:24:32 GMT -5
Except that there is no such thing as perfection Actually, there is. The origin of the word "perfect" has nothing to do with being flawless or unblemished. It came from the Greeks and was a word used with regard to shipbuilding. When a vessel was deemed "perfect," they meant it was simply ready for the voyage - complete, prepared, lacking nothing that was necessary but not overburdened with non-essentials. So, we can all be perfect! It just means we have what we need for our own personal journeys through life and not more than that.
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Post by angela on Sept 26, 2014 0:08:15 GMT -5
outfromundah I love that! Wow, what a fabulous idea, this is the kind of perfect I can achieve!
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