HomeDining RoomVictorian Balloon-Back Chair -- Please Choose an Option -- AM - Robert Allen Amber RA - Robert Allen Rain AL - Robert Allen Aloe VB - Batavia Salmon Jacquard FR - Burgundy Velvet MB - Marco Polo Red Jacquard M7 - Marbella Beige Damask NA - Nadia Tapestry LY - Lily Striped Jacquard LA - Ivory Damask TR - Grey Damask Print OZ - Blue Damask Print Custom Upholstery (Additional Cost) Custom Finish (Additional Cost) This lovely antique reproduction has been carved, sanded, and finished by hand and put together using traditional construction techniques. We only use the finest wood, favored by cabinetmakers throughout the centuries: solid Honduran mahogany wood. Unlike the softer pine and the harder oak, Honduran mahogany is less brittle and more flexible, but what makes it particularly beautiful on this piece is the natural reddish-brown color, straight grain, and medium texture which are all accented by our gorgeous satin finish.
Give your home an Old World look with heirloom-quality furniture from Laurel Crown. Victorian Balloon-Back Oval Chair Louis XVI Medallion Back Chair Federal Heart Back ChairVictorian ChairsWhite VictorianVictorian FurnitureVictorian DecorVictorian GoticWhite RococoVictorian RococoClassic VictorianVictorian BeautiesForwardBlack and white victorian chair I want it!! I don't know where i would put it but I want it. Life in the Parlor: Victorian Style Furniture [1830-1860] Tufting, rich upholstery, a smattering of revival styles and plenty of extravagant carved details… Victorian style chairs are curvaceous, opulent pieces. Read about the history of Victorian parlor chairs and browse vintage and antique Victorian style furniture at One Kings Lane. With the Industrial Revolution, standards of living were on the rise, but standards of craftsmanship were not. As machines grew more imperative, highly skilled craftsmen fell out of favor. Machines were able to whip up thousands of chairs in record time—and even carving was machinated.
Georgian uniformity in England was on the way out, and comfort took center stage. For Victorian chairs, style wasn’t the focus—it was all about comfort. Factories were producing an abundance of fabrics and the Victorian era took on the moniker of “The Age of the Upholsterer.” A simpler upholstery was also popular—cross-stitch embroidery on canvas or wool that women could make at home—but more often, fringes and tassels were used, without much reserve. Button-tufted upholstery would grow more and more popular, as well. The key to Victorian style is understanding that what chairs resulted during the period were really a mixture of revivals: Grecian, Gothic, Elizabethan, Rococo, and “Old French,” or Louis XIV & Louis XV. And the mixture was not always to favorable reviews: a particularly bitter critic of the Victorian style was Charles Eastlake, who would later be a key mind behind the Arts & Crafts Movement. A few chairs key to Victorian style include: Balloon-backed chairs demonstrated how the search for comfort could truly influence the structure of chairs.
Originating around 1830 and evolving to show more and more curves until its peak in 1850, the balloon-back chair (sometimes called ‘buckle chairs’ depending on the yoke) mashed together a number of different revival styles, typical of Victorian style. With heavily tufted horsehair seats, cabriole legs for the drawing room and (Regency-style) straight legs for the dining room, these universally popular chairs were fertile ground for revival motifs. prie-dieu chair, or “vesper” or “devotional”: upholstered, armless chairs with high backs and low seats, which resembled a prayer bench. The vis-a-vis, “tete a tete” or “Siamoise sofa”: a new shape unique to the Victorian era, an S-shaped chair that curved back-to-back, inviting conversation with a shoulder-to-shoulder intimacy. Similarly, the “conversation chair” incorporated three seats around a central spiral. papier-mâché: this treatment was most often used with japanning, with exquisite embellishment and inlay.
It remained popular until about 1850. It was also used to create the molded backs of bergères. Victorian easy chairs: In 1828, the invention of springs for mattresses led to their wide use in easy chairs, which exemplified the Victorian search for comfort. Poufs: a Victorian contribution that has never gone out of style, the pouf is cylindrical and completely padded, with no frame visible and generous tufts. Victorian Chairs in America [1840-1900] Like in England, Victorian chairs in America included open-back chairs (“balloon-back chairs”) upholstered chairs with heavily carved frames, and tufted, upholstered rockers—exactly like the one President Lincoln sat in the night he was fatally shot at the Ford Theater. Sectional sofas would also become commonplace in the home, mostly consisting of two sofas pushed together and latched underneath. John Henry Belter (1804-1863) was known for being one of the best cabinet-makers in New York City, and created suites of Victorian furniture, including upholstered and carved side chairs, much like the ones in Roosevelt’s boyhood home during the Civil War.
The wood frames exploded with ornate carving on all sides. Woods used in Victorian American chairs included rosewood, mahogany, walnut, and oak. A Photo Guide to Antique Chair Identification Confession: This is a cheat sheet for myself. I buy and sell furniture and often have to figure out what period the particular furniture piece fits into. Use it to figure out your style as you identify antique chairs. Louis XV Armchair, 1715-1774, Rococo Louis XV Upholstered Chair, 1715-1774, Rococo Louis XV Style Bergeres, 1715-1774, Rococo Louis XV Style, 1715-1774, Rococo Louis XV Fauteuils Chairs French Painted Chic French Painted Louis XV Bergere Chairs Louis XVI-Style Bergere Baroque Style, Cir 1600 Chic French Country Tapestry Louis XVI Settee Sofa Louis XVI-Style Large Scale Marquis, 1600 Baroque Style Neo-Classic Design Louis XVI Style Giltwood Caned Chairs Louis XVI Chairs, Pair of Chic French Country Painted Louis XIII Style Chairs
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