Antiques Collectables and Fine Art

[jbreth]

I have been given a buffet but I am having a hard time finding any information on the company. I am also looking for a year that it was built. Any information would be helpful.





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[QueenSherwood]

The American Empire style of furniture was loosely based on France's Empire style of furniture, popular during Napoleon's reign. However, the American version was often much plainer than the French style.

American Empire furniture became popular in the early 1800's. It seemed particularly well-suited to the South's Greek Revival mansions, but was featured in many other styles of homes all across the United States. Examples were still appearing in interior design books in 1903, but the style would also be criticized in 1903 by writers Desmond and Croly as being "heavier and clumsier than . . . [C]olonial furniture . . . more chunky, solid, and bourgeois."

Despite Desmond and Croly's poor opinion of the style, American Empire furniture is characterized by simple, often massive, yet graceful curves and dark woods and veneers (mahogany was a common wood used in the style). Some pieces featured a lyre motif, and occasionally a bird's-wing shape, pineapple, or dolphin's head also appear.


Just a little of what I found about it, maybe it might help