Incollect Magazine - Issue 4

Incollect Magazine 99 2023 First and foremost is the design of a piece. Design elicits an emotional reaction almost immediately. It repels or attracts straightaway. It doesn’t mean you can’t learn to love a piece, but the identical design made to a different scale can alter your perception. It is important to spend time trying to figure out why you think what you think, as the makers usually had a reason for making an item in a certain fashion. For example, a demilune sideboard, which will usually be deeper than a D-shape or rectangular sideboard, was likely made for a neoclassical interior. Go to the Metropolitan Museum and check out the Lansdowne House dining room and you will see that a demilune sideboard is ideal for that space. It reflects the theme of the room. This is true for furniture of all eras of furniture design. You can subject almost every piece of furniture to this sort of examination and as you become familiar with 18th, 19th and 20th-century design, you will learn why certain things were made. While there are no hard and fast rules about what will work in a particular setting, the principles of scale and balance have everything to do with creating a beautiful interior. And of course, the familiar adage about first knowing the rules before you can break them applies here as well. 1 Peacocks Finest is offering a Georgian oval satinwood Pembroke table, circa 1790. One of the more useful pieces of English furniture is the Pembroke table, originally used as a tiny dining table, especially for breakfast or tea. Satinwood is just a stunning timber. Antique Satinwood is native species from the Caribbean and a member of the citrus family. It has been off the market for centuries now, nearly all harvested for fine furniture. design first

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