Beech: Quite hard and common wood chiefly used in chair making, seat rails, seat frames, bent chair backs. However beech is very vulnerable to attack in the sapwood by wood boring insects. Occurs commonly in…

The ‘China’ taste was all the rage in Europe starting in around the mid 17th Century and continuing throughout the entire 18th Century, with several ‘revivals’ following on in the later 19th and the early 20th Cent. This taste…

Antique dressers were originally made to be used in a kitchen but in recent times they are often upgraded into the dining room. A generous arrangement of working drawers along with a plate rack means…