English Period Furniture Restoration
Furniture Restoration 1660-1688
This was the return of the court from its ten-year exile. It brought about an extreme reaction.
Charles 11 Chair c. 1685, cresting rail fixed on top of chair back. Now back in England, Charles II and his court surrounded themselves with furniture resembling the most lavish they had seen in France and Holland.
This caused an immediate reaction to the stifling restrictions of the Puritans.
The upper classes took their cue from the court with much extravagant furniture, and gradually the middle class followed.
It was an excessively civilised society, and great ladies rivaled each other in the grandness of their dressing rooms, which created a new demand for items of furniture.
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Flemish S Scroll leg for restoration
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Restoration Early Cane Chair c. 1665 with barley sugar or corkscrew turning. Restoration Period Furniture Features
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