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French antique furniture styles guide pt 1
Most of the French antique furniture Frenchfinds supplies are from the late 1800s or early 1900s. Almost all of these items are made in certain in style harking back to definitive earlier periods of French furniture design.
From the 1830s, starting with Gothic and Rococo revivals, it became more and more popular to reinvent these styles to fit the tastes of the day. As tastes blended and fashions became more mixed up, motifs from eras cross-fertilised the craftmanship changing furniture from true reproductions to interpretations to please clients of the time.
In order to help understand these categories we have put together a quick guide to the antique French furniture styles we sell. Below are the first 3 categories in the series – Rococo, Henri II and Louis XVI.
Provencal, Napolean III, Empire, Louis XV, Louis XIII, Breton and Louis Phillipe styles will be covered in forthcoming posts.
Sumptuous Upholstery Fabrics for French Furniture Pt 2
Part 2 of frenchfinds.co.uk blog post on sourcing bright and different fabric ideas for upholstering fantastic French furniture pieces like beds, chairs and accessories (you can find part 1 here).
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Sumptuous and bright fabrics for antique and vintage French furniture upholstery Pt1
At Frenchfinds.co.uk We get asked a lot about reupholstery for our original antique and vintage French furniture especially our French Capitone and Corbeille beds. Having come direct from France, some of these French beds need some a loving change of fabric to revitalise them. Once done they look stunning and can become either a centre-piece to a bedroom or a fantastic accompanying piece to the rest of the room.
Most of the antique or vintage French beds we find are quite often in a damask or jacquard fabric which looks beautiful in its original condition but can sometimes be hard to find.
Having seen some of the blow away results of a reupholstered bed finished in a contemporary Designer’s Guild fabric (for a client’s teenage daughter), we were tempted to find out what other bold fabrics are available for upholstering French furniture. This is part 1 of a 2 part post (mainly due to the number of thumbnails). Continue reading
Top tips for choosing an upholstery fabric for French furniture
Frenchfinds French corbeille bed covered in Designers' Guild material
There is a veritable feast of fantastic fabrics available out there with temptingly luscious colours and endless possibilities for revitalising antique furniture or making a bold statement within a room.
At Frenchfinds we have seen how the simple, sublime and explosively colourful can all work exceptionally well with French antique and vintage furniture.
But before getting lost in the heady maze of suppliers, fabric websites and inspirational interior design blogs, we suggest it is worth ticking off some simple check points.
