Maple and Co catalogue 1890s

[plasticpigeon]

Very interesting catalogue for thos looking for late Victorian furniture inspiration.

https://archive.org/details/mapleetciecatalo00mapl

 

[88v8]

Gosh, thankyou, that's great.
And the flip book works very well.

Oh for a time machine. All that wonderful workmanship.

I've saved it in my Favourites. Now all I need is a suitable house.

Didn't see any furniture that looked low enough for your bay, but on page 177 there's a possible option?

Ivor

 

[plasticpigeon]

It's horrible to think that so much of that kind of furniture got burned or smashed up when it became unfashionable. I think a lot of brown furniture still gets sent overseas.

 

[JanieB]

It's horrible to think that so much of that kind of furniture got burned or smashed up when it became unfashionable. I think a lot of brown furniture still gets sent overseas.

Or gets painted in "Annie Sloan" paint and called shabby chic. I've been trying to find a welsh dresser for my dining room but all the ones I actually like have been attacked by a paintbrush and I don't want to pay for the modernisation and then have to scrape it off.

 

[mims&pip]

Thanks for the great link, PP! We have (or at least had as I can't recall seeing them since we moved ) facsimile copies of old furniture/furnishing catalogues which are (or were) huge fun to trawl through! I also have the wonderful Darryl Bennett Liberty & Shapland & Petter books which contain fascinating examples of adverts from their respective trade catalogues

It's a controversial subject that I know has been touched on here previously, but whilst I agree it's sacrilege to paint period/antique pieces (and would never do it to any of our true arts & crafts/nouveau items*), I do confess to believing it's preferable to smashing them up, for at least that way they survive and are still giving pleasure (to the owner that is!). Unfortunately previous generations have much to answer for in allowing such destruction - not to mention the wholesale bulldozing of amazing characterful buildings in the 1950s & 1960s (and into the present day in some parts ) - I recall tales of my maternal grandfather 'saving' items of antique furniture from being thrown in the 1950s equivalent of a skip, but apparently my mother being totally embarrassed by his actions. She went on to fill her house with high end reproduction cottage style furniture and collectables......shudder!

*Although I have painted a period style kitchen dresser and the base of a Smallbone butchers block in Annie Sloan or similar chalk paint :roll: