The French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables

 by James Robinson

The French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables have been a delight to connoisseurs of antiques. The French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables comprise both of the sophisticated items from Paris for the aristocracy and the rich from the French and Italian provincial cities and towns. The other popular French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables were from French and Italian country side that stayed up to the mid nineteenth century.

During the middle Ages French and Italian tables were functional and practical. Carved French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables showed wealth or constituted the dowry. This period covers the Romanesque and Gothic eras. Although Gothic styles continued into the 16th century, the influence of the Italian Renaissance was soon felt in France. French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables became less heavy, more comfortable and more decorated.
During the seventeenth century wealth changed the style and manner of how people lived. During the first part of the century French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables design was dominated by the elegance of the Renaissance. Vey soon the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables gradually changed to the baroque, a massive ornate style originating in Italy. Baroque French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables reached their height of glory in France under Louise XIV. For the first time people expected their French tables and Italian tables to be comfortable and beautiful.
The golden age of the French tables and Italian tables reflected the elaborate social customs of the day. Industrial development, international trade and the migration of craftsmen gave a fillip to prosperity and an exchange of idea. The French Antique tablesand Italian Antique tables were influenced by the Orient. Foreign material in the making of French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables, especially mahogany, played an important role in the first half of the century. The use of satinwood influenced the designs of French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables in the second half. New pieces and designs in the tables followed those of the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. The French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables styles were set in France, migrated to England and then to America. There was a particular liking for French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. The French Antique tables and Italian Antique table styles changed from the massive ornate French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables to the delicately decorated French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables.
At the end of the 18th century French tables and Italian Antique tables adapted new industrialized techniques but kept the public fascination for antiquity up. The French Antique tables and Italian Antique table design elements were borrowed from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Modern material and technology changed traditional construction methods of French tables and Italian tables. The emphasis was on the functionality as provided by the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. Wood was still the most popular material of the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. Glass, metal and plastics were also used in the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. The structure and materials in the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables contributed to the beauty more than their surface ornamentation. The French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables fit in modern houses and apartments with a great ambiance. A popular interest in traditional styles of the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables led to collecting the French Antique tables and Italian Antique tables. It encouraged 'antiquing' and reproduction market. Though modernism in the French tables and Italian tables has set in, French Antique and Italian Antique tables will be cherished and will withstand the onslaught of the future especially in the French Antique tables and Italian Antique table genre.


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French Antique Tables and Antique Tables imported from France by Alhambra Antiques.