Chairs - History Part VI
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Article by: Michael Russell In this next article in our series on the history of chairs , Kitchen Island Sizes we're going to pick up with chairs , Decorating your kids rooms with colors made in the 19th century. To understand the dramatic change , Skylight Windows in chair design , Fill Your Home With Fantastic Furniture and Stay Within Your Budget in the 19th and 20th centuries one first has to understand the arts and crafts , The Benefits of Hookless Shower Curtains movement of the 19th century. This movement was almost solely responsible for the change , Checkerboard Decorating: How to "Jump" Your Furniture From Place to Place in chair , Fill Your Home With Fantastic Furniture and Stay Within Your Budget styles. Arts and crafts, , Discount Carpet: Find Out How To Get The Carpet You Want for starters, are things that are generally made by ones own hands, or as we call , Oriental Area Rugs - Know Before You Buy an Oriental Rug them today, hand made. This was a very big thing, starting in the 19th century, that things of quality had to be made by hand. In spite of the industrial revolution where items were now made mostly by machine, the chairs , The Benefits of Waterbed Sheet Sets that truly defined the period were actually made by hand. This movement was said to be started by William Morris and Edwin Lutyens. William Morris lived from 1834 to 1896. He was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts , Color Is A Catalyst movement. In 1861 he founded Morris, Marshall and Faulkner. This company, which eventually became Morris and Company, recreated some of the medieval tapestry made for chairs , The Benefits of Hookless Shower Curtains of that period. His designs , 5 Tips to Preschoolers Bedrooms, on a Budget are still sold even today under the name Sanderson and Sons who bought the license from him. Lutyens came a little bit later. He lived from 1869 to 1944. He began his own business in 1888. His first commissioned works were for private houses. , Shakin' Things Up He would design , Using Color To Change The Size Of Your Bedroom most of the furniture , Bunk Beds - Safety Checklist When Shopping in these houses , Bathroom Organizing Ideas including the chairs, , Decorating with Brains all in a very classical style similar to the works of Morris. Both of these men believed that medieval craftsmen found a joy in their work that was missing , Sheepskin Rugs: 5 Choices To Discover in today's designs , A Review of Popular Massage Chairs and they strove to emulate that work. So in a sense, 19th century chair design , Buying Art Without Going Broke actually took a step backwards. During this period, many other craftsmen followed in Morris' footsteps. Many of them worked to refine their skills , Color Is A Catalyst for very low wages simply so that they could get the work. A guild society of these workers was formed so if someone wanted a hand made chair , Bunk Beds - Safety Checklist When Shopping they knew where to go as the society itself was very well promoted. The materials used for these chairs , Sheepskin Rugs: 5 Choices To Discover varied greatly. The more important part was not so much what the chairs , The Fine Art of Bonsai: Beautiful and Unique Decor were made of but how they were made and how they looked, always trying to strive for that medieval appearance. Eventually, however, these "artists" could no longer compete with the industrial revolution and these hand made chair , Tips on How to Give Your Bathroom a New Look makers started to slowly disappear. By the early 1900s most of them were long gone. When the 20th century hit, with it hit an increasing use of technology in the construction of chairs. , Discount Carpet: Find Out How To Get The Carpet You Want We saw the introduction of all metal , The Benefits of Waterbed Sheet Sets folding chairs, , Lighting Up a Seniors Life - Baby Boomer Alert! which are still popular today for bringing to the beach or putting out in the backyard. , Making Your Own Style The 20th century also saw the appearance of the slumber chair, , Using Color To Change The Size Of Your Bedroom molded plastic , Latex Mattresses - Comfortable, Renewable, and Biodegradable chairs and ergonomic chairs. , Tips on How to Give Your Bathroom a New Look By the 1960s the styles of chairs , Replacing Chandelier Parts had literally exploded. We had everything from the butterfly chair, , Designing Your Signature Life beanbag chairs , Feng Shui-Move 9 Items: Increase Life-Potential 9 Times! and the egg or pod chair. , Designing Your Signature Life Because of the advances in technology we had molded plywood and laminated wood , The Benefits of Hookless Shower Curtains chairs. We also had chairs , Commercial Embroidery Machines made of leather or polymer. Today, if you can pretty much visualize a chair design , Grandfather Clocks Through the Centuries most likely somebody has made it. Yes, we have come a long way.  ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Russell Your Independent guide to Chairs ------------------------------------------------------- |
  
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