<![CDATA[The Cutting Edge]]> http://www.woodworkersdirectory.com/pg/pages/view/144?view=rss http://www.woodworkersdirectory.com/pg/pages/view/144/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:34:55 -0700 http://www.woodworkersdirectory.com/pg/pages/view/144/ <![CDATA[History of Woodworking Periods of Design and Style]]>
All dates are approximate only being intended to indicate the years when certain furniture styles were mainly produced.
Age of the Carpenter 1485 - 1660
1485 - 1558
Tudor Gothic
1558 - 1603
Elizabethan
British Monarchs:
1485 - 1509 Henry VII
1509 - 1547 Henry VIII
1547 - 1553 Edward VI
1553 - 1558 Mary
1558 - 1603 Elizabeth I

Material:

OAK.

Age of the Cabinet Makers 1660 - 1750
1603 - 1625
Jacobean
1625 - 1660
Early Stuarts
1660 - 1680
Cromwell
1680 - 1730
William and Mary
British Monarchs:
1603 - 1625 James I
1625 - 1649 Charles I
1649 - 1660 Commonwealth
1660 - 1685 Charles II
1685 - 1688 James II
1689 - 1702 William and Mary

Materials:

OAK till 1669

WALNUT from 1660 - 1735

Age of the Cabinet Makers up to 1750
1702 - 1760
Queen Anne
1714 - 1750
Early Georgian
1745 - 1780
Chippendale
1750 - 1957
Shaker (USA)
1760 - 1792
Adam
1760 - 1790
Hepplewhite
1790 - 1806
Sheraton
British Monarchs:
1702 - 1714 Anne
1714 - 1727 George I
1727 - 1760 George II
1760 - 1820 George III
Materials:

Walnut till 1725

Mahogany from 1715 - 1810

Satinwood from 1765 - ...

then the Age of Designers:
1710 - 1778
John Cobb
1700 - 1767
William Vile
1751 - 1806
Thomas Sheraton
1684 - 1748
William Kent
1714 - 1778
Thomas Johnson
1718 - 1779
Chippendale
1749 - 1822
Chippendale
1728 - 1792
Robert Adam
1723 - 1785
John Goddard (USA)
....... - 1786
George Hepplewhite
1769 - 1831
Thomas Hope
1768 - 1854
Duncan Phyfe
1721 - 1788
William Savery (USA)

Age of Designers from 1790:
1790 - 1806
Sheraton
1810 - 1830
Regency and George IV
1810 - 1848
Biedermeir (German - USA)
1837 - 1901
Victorian
1890 - 1914
Art Nouveau
British Monarchs:
1820 - 1830 George IV
1830 - 1837 William IV
1837 - 1901 Victoria

Materials:

Mahogany

Designers:
1812 - 1852
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
1836 - 1906
Charles Lock Eastlake
1857 - 1941
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
1868 - 1928
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1867 - 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright (USA)
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