Regency Period Furniture; 1830s Daybed and the English Regency Style
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2021
- This video presents a mysterious and unusual late regency daybed while shedding light on the subject of furniture from the past and this early 19th century style as a whole.
Regency is a term given to the decorative movement which emerged during the 1790s in England and evolved, sweeping the European continent and lingering up until about the year 1840. The name comes from the political Regency of Prince George, later George IV who ruled in place of George III when this monarch was too ill to rule. Furniture styles only loosely correspond to the governmental period or monarch’s reign after which they are named.
The regency style, being so successful and diversely expressed, leaves for us today a wide range of artifacts from different countries and decades of the first third of the 19th century. This daybed is likely Italian, and it exemplifies the later, more exuberant phase of the style which is prized for the use of red mahogany, robust neoclassical decor, and the way it evokes a dark and mysterious past.
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A very attractive daybed; the fusion of English and Italian style reminds me of pieces by Henry Thomas Peters of Genoa. I hope you keep these videos coming Cole. I like your easy presenting style. Your knowledge of period furniture, your passion for it and your occasional quirkiness are a nice mix.
Great looking piece ! Thank you for your informative presentation
Reminds me of the Jacque Louis David painting. Wonderful choice of fabric
Thank you so much - and yes I felt lucky when I found this fabric btw. Glad you like the videos.
Oh, I see. 😲 I always wondered how they laid on those daybeds. Your head doesn't rest on the arm. Or you could sit and lounge yourself over the arm on one end.
The Egyptian idea of the power of the animal would be transferred to the user is an imaginative concept! That's a beautiful piece of art furniture, thank you for the history!
Thanks for watching ! Glad you enjoyed the video
Absolutely fascinating! And what a beautiful piece. Really interesting and engaging video, I'm glad to have come across your channel!
Thank you so much ! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for your channel. It is very informative. Your passion for furniture with the relevant history is truly inspiring.
Glad you enjoy the videos and thank you for this encouraging message !
Congratulations! You Sir, by far, have the most information rich and accurate antique furniture channel in all ouf TH-cam. As a classicist and collector of antiques myself, the information and passion you share are very invaluable to me. Thank you. NkT - England
Thank you so much for this - It is nice to read such kind words from someone in the know. Don't hesitate to correct me, as I'm working fast to at least just get all of the pieces I have up here - and please comment if you have information to add!
A real joy. Thank you. Another thing which helps to define regency furniture is that the carving was usually vey crisp, sharp and often deep. Particularly in good quality pieces.
Thank you - I appreciate comment like this that deepen these style overview videos/digital renderings of the pieces.
Must be so wonderful to own a piece like this and know their previous honors. Are you saying that this one was constructed in Italy. So beautifully work you did it to put it together to the present. Thank you for make that possible and the video too.
Did you keep your shoes on when you were laying on the daybed?
Great video, has the back of the day been finished like the front?
It seems this is an "odd one out" video right?
Yes completely - the piece seems quality and eye catching enough although quite late in the traditional timeline - totally odd one out but fairly interesting I thought !
Do honor to the pices of fine world furniture, and put on a suit!!!
I will take this up with the costume department !
I love it's form but I loathe the wood choice of Mahony as I've always found red colored woods hideous, I prefer black walnut but my second choice is oak. In America we still have handmade furniture workshops, it never really went away here. The arts and crafts movement brought so may amazing pieces into existence, so I find your lack of respect for late 18th century furniture to be distressing. Especially as rope beds and Windsor chairs were still being hand made in America well into the second half of the century. Also, Art Nouveau and neo gothic were amazing art styles that challenged what furniture could be, they were also very distinct styles. I also like Greco Roman Revival as it can be very playful ;) and get away with it while other styles of that era... :)
If you see a lack of disrespect for late 19th c I must have failed to communicate a nuance. You might like the video of a monumental late 19th c neogothic dressoir on the channel - one of many such pieces I own. My point with late 19th is to differentiate art quality furniture from impertinent factory pieces... artless machine made products that comprise the majority of 19th c furniture.