English furniture

English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country.

Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.^[1]

Periods in English furniture design

• Middle Ages
• Elizabethan
• Jacobean era
• Restoration / Carolean
• William and Mary
• Queen Anne - see Queen Anne style furniture
• Georgian
• Victorian - see Victorian decorative arts
• Art Deco
• Modernist

See also

• Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture
• Sheraton style

References

Further reading

• Blake, John Percy; Reveirs-Hopkins, Alfred Edward (1930). Old English furniture for the small collector: its types, history and surroundings from mediaeval to Victorian times. B.T. Batsford ltd. p. 155. 
• Bly, John; Knowles, Eric (2010). Knowles, Eric, ed. English Furniture. Shire Collections. Osprey Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7478-0786-5. 
• Brackett, Oliver (1928). English furniture. Benn's sixpenny library 230. E. Benn. p. 79. 
• Gloag, John (2008). English Furniture. Envins Press. ISBN 978-1-4437-2085-4. 
• Learoyd, Stan (1981). English furniture: construction and decoration, 1500-1910. Evans Bros. ISBN 978-0-237-45515-6. 
• Macquoid, Percy (1972). A history of English furniture. The history of English furniture 2. Dover. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-486-22204-2. 
• Robinson, Frederick S. (1905). English furniture. Methuen and Co. p. 363. 
• Rogers, John Charles; Jourdain, Margaret (1950). English furniture. Country Life. 
• Sotheby's (1989). English furniture. Sotheby's. 
• Victoria and Albert Museum (1955). A history of English furniture. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 26. 
• Wolsey, Samuel Wilfred; Luff, R. W. P. (1969). Furniture in England: the age of the joiner. Books that matter. Praeger. p. 104.