Sheraton style

The Sheraton style is a very rangy English style of furniture, which is named after its author and designer Thomas Sheraton ( 1751-1806 ). It is time to classify in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Although Thomas Sheraton was often referred to as a carpenter, it should now be considered certain that Sheraton probably never even furniture actually produced. Sheraton described himself always merely as a " pattern designer for ornaments and furniture ." He has published several books, which later became a lasting effect on the contemporary furniture style: The Cabine - Maker and Upholsterer 's Drawing Book, published in sequels 1791-1794 ( was 1794 and first published in German in Leipzig), The Cabinet Dictionary ( 1803), Cabinet - Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805 ). Sheraton was based heavily on Louis XVI, Directoire, and especially at the Adams style, which was heavily classically influenced.

Sheraton furniture designs show furniture in simple shapes with slim straight legs of square section, where, for example, Find ornaments in the form of a lyre, or garlands, urns and vases. Usually they are also decorated with stripe, plain inlays. He preferred as a material mahogany, rosewood ( = rosewood, is in translations often incorrectly referred to as rosewood) and satinwood ( = satinwood or satinwood, which is the term for tropical wood from West and East Indies, as especially in the 18-19. century were popular, and their smooth surface has a silky shine - hence the name). At the Sheraton style armchairs is supported primarily by the broken backs.

England was ruled at the time of George III Sheraton. , Therefore, called the Sheraton style often Georgian (Late Georgian ).

  • Furniture
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