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. There were significant regional differences in style, 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

See also

• Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture
• Sheraton style

Further reading

• Blake, John Percy; Reveirs-Hopkins, Alfred Edward (1930). Old English furniture for the small collector: its types, history and surroundings from mediaeval to Victorian times. B.T. Batsford ltd. p. 155.
• Bly, John; Knowles, Eric (2010). Knowles, Eric (ed.). English Furniture. Shire Collections. Osprey Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7478-0786-5.
• 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; Jourdain, Margaret (1950). English furniture. Country Life.
• 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; Luff, R. W. P. (1969). Furniture in England: the age of the joiner. Books that matter. Praeger. p. 104.