Original British Colonial furniture was a style born of homesickness. Nineteenth Century English settlers in East Africa, Burma, India and Barbados during the expansion of the British Empire found ...

Stepping into a vintage store or strolling through a local estate sale usually means running into a lot of heavy Colonial Revival furniture from the 1970s. Chunky maple trestle tables and bulky pine ...

Drive through Los Angeles neighborhoods like Beverly Hills, Glendale and Los Feliz, and you’ll see a concentration of Spanish Colonial-style homes. On the exterior, you can’t miss the stucco facades, ...

TO THE LAYMAN’S eye, the four ball-and-claw furniture feet look the same: carved claws grip carved ball. But to Ray Journigan, they tell stories of period cabinetmakers in four places. When found on ...

Doug Van Tress, co-owner of the Golden Triangle (www.goldentriangle.biz), a rare furnishings and antiques store in Chicago, kicks his feet up on a British colonial-style desk in his office and tells ...

Colonial Williamsburg is starting a new archaeology project that hopes to shed light on prolific Scottish cabinetmaker Peter Scott. Archaeologists will soon start excavating a site across from Bruton ...

The piece of furniture tucked in a West Ashley storage shed for years might not have attracted much interest had it sat in an antique shop, especially if no one noticed the carving on top. Its finish ...

There is a rich, layered social history to be found in everyday articles­­. If a picture paints a thousand words then a chair, bed or commode tells a microcosmical history. In Furniture of the New ...

It's not quite as simple when you choose Australian colonial furniture, however. Not only does your collection take up a lot more room, but the prices quickly become very serious indeed. A nice chest ...