In our continuing series Know Your Chairs, we are taking a step back in time to examine a type of chair popular in the Victorian era. The ...

When I was in design school many, many years ago and had to take a multi-semester course called "The History of Furniture," I rol...

Frederic Edwin Church (1826--1900) was an American artist who was of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the pupil of Thoma...

For this installment of The History of Furniture, we are going to look at a specific sub-genre of the  larger Victorian style category. We h...

When surveying antique furniture, one of the broadest--and most abundant--periods is the Victorian Era. Strictly speaking, the term "Vi...