English furniture

English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. Regional styles are significant, for example between the North Country and the West Country.

Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.

Periods in English furniture design

• Middle Ages
• Elizabethan
• Jacobean era
• Restoration / Carolean
• William and Mary
• Queen Anne - see Queen Anne style furniture
• Georgian
• Victorian - see Victorian decorative arts
• Art Deco
• Modernist

Further reading

• Blake, John Percy (1930). Old English furniture for the small collector: its types, history and surroundings from mediaeval to Victorian times. B.T. Batsford ltd. p. 155. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Bly, John (2010). Knowles, Eric (ed.). English Furniture. Shire Collections. Osprey Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7478-0786-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Brackett, Oliver (1928). English furniture. Benn's sixpenny library. Vol. 230. E. Benn. p. 79.
• Gloag, John (2008). English Furniture. Envins Press. ISBN 978-1-4437-2085-4.
• Learoyd, Stan (1981). English furniture: construction and decoration, 1500-1910. Evans Bros. ISBN 978-0-237-45515-6.
• Macquoid, Percy (1972). A history of English furniture. The history of English furniture. Vol. 2. Dover. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-486-22204-2.
• Robinson, Frederick S. (1905). English furniture. Methuen and Co. p. 363.
• Rogers, John Charles (1950). English furniture. Country Life. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Sotheby's (1989). English furniture. Sotheby's.
• Victoria and Albert Museum (1955). A history of English furniture. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 26.
• Wolsey, Samuel Wilfred (1969). Furniture in England: the age of the joiner. Books that matter. Praeger. p. 104. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

See also

• Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture
• Sheraton style