I founded the furniture rooms with my father with a simple aim: to restore the best of furniture design so it doesn't cost a fortune. We started The Furniture Rooms together in 2004 from great knowledge of Antique Furniture, Now we have moved onto later eras of Art Deco and Mid century Furniture restoring and selling our Antique and retro furniture and accessories through a small store in London.
We also wanted the experience of buying antique Art deco and retro furniture online to be really easy. We carry all of the range in stock so you don't have to wait ages whether it is for a sofa or a bed. We deliver all our furniture ourselves when we can, because we believe that no one else will take as much care of our products as we will.
We also wanted the experience of buying antique Art deco and retro furniture online to be really easy. We carry all of the range in stock so you don't have to wait ages whether it is for a sofa or a bed. We deliver all our furniture ourselves when we can, because we believe that no one else will take as much care of our products as we will.
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Antiques are ageless treasures that can add an elegant touch to any home. Antique furniture can meet a wide variety of tastes, bargains can be had and enduring articles obtained for your home to be cherished. Whilst contemporary furniture is often the cheapest and more prosaic nothing can compare with a genuine antique piece of furniture.
One of the earliest surviving styles of formal table's is that of the trestle tables, first created in the Middle Ages, from long wooden planks that sat upontrestle ends. Designed to be easily dismantled and then moved aside to createmore space for festivities.
These progressed into Refectory tables, immerging around the 16th Century, as a more permanent fixture, standing in rooms created just for the purposeof dining and mainly carved from solid oak.By the mid-17th Century antique gate leg dining tables were introduced, with folding drop-down leaves. At first these tables could be of a considerably large in size, later being reduced to more practical proportions.
These progressed into Refectory tables, immerging around the 16th Century, as a more permanent fixture, standing in rooms created just for the purposeof dining and mainly carved from solid oak.By the mid-17th Century antique gate leg dining tables were introduced, with folding drop-down leaves. At first these tables could be of a considerably large in size, later being reduced to more practical proportions.
The Antique sideboard has evolved from a mere side table or serving table, being a plain object set against the wall to serve dishes from, with a separate cupboard/chest on wheels to store the glass and silverware. To that of a buffet with built in closet developed within the eighteenth century.
This further morphed into a more decorative object, with storage for hot and cold food as well as cutlery and wines, concealed within raised pedestal cupboards and adorned with ornamental vases.There were even receptacles for ice and water. Finally, the Sideboard as we know it today was born, containing all the elements of the above, in a more unified and refined form.
This further morphed into a more decorative object, with storage for hot and cold food as well as cutlery and wines, concealed within raised pedestal cupboards and adorned with ornamental vases.There were even receptacles for ice and water. Finally, the Sideboard as we know it today was born, containing all the elements of the above, in a more unified and refined form.
The Antique chest of drawers is a piece of everyday furniture that in our modern world inhabits almost every home around us. Yet if you dissect the name, the history of this humble item will reveal itself, for it is the key to its past. Originally formed from a simpler box or 'chest', with the later addition of a drawer and traditionally given in the medieval times as a dowry (maritalchest).
In the true sense of the word, desk's or 'deske' were only first trul mentioned in 1450, not evolving until the 17th century into what we know today. Up until this point, writing was considered something mainly confined to the church or nobility. Performed upon a simple oak sloping box, no larger than 3ft in width, which stored the Scribes tools and being fully portable.
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Derek Phelan
Nov 20, 2020
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