English Furniture Decoration Woodwork and Allied Arts

Thomas Arthur Strange’s book, English Furniture, Decoration Woodwork and Allied Arts, is one of the great books of furniture design. In the 376 pages can be found over 4000 individual illustrations starting with the designs of Inigo Jones 1572-1653 and finishing with those of Sheraton at the beginning of the 19th century. The range of subjects and designers is totally comprehensive, as the author traces the chronological development of furniture design in those 150 years.Among the subjects covered are bookcases, beds and bedposts, cabinets, candelabra, candlesticks, chairs, ceilings, chimney pieces and clocks, doors and panels, fenders and firedogs, girandoles, grates, handles, lanterns and mirrors, organs, picture frames, screens, settees, tables, tea chests, toilet glasses and turnings, urns, vases, wardrobes and writing tables. Thomas Strange’s text starting with Inigo Jones covers all the main designers and furniture makers of those years. It provides a summary of their lives and also instruction on the main styles of their designs and the principle orders of architecture.