Hope all of you were able to make it to our St. Patrick's Day 1 Day Drawing. We had loads of fun! Thanks to Donna & Camille for selling the tickets! Here they are hard at work with all of our goodies we had to give away!
They worked really hard to make this a success! Thanks again. Congratulations are in order for our 15 WINNERS. First prize was a $50.00 Antique Gallery of Houston Gift Certificate. That was won by the lovely lady pictured below with The Antique Gallery of Houston's Manager, Susan Golden. She also won another prize and was thrilled to have the extra $$$ to spend at The Antique Gallery of Houston.
Our next event will be our semi-annual Home-made goodies Bake Sale. This will be held on Saturday April 07, 2012 just in time for Easter.
So hop on in and pick up a treat! Then 2 weeks after that we will have our much anticipated "ASK OUR EXPERTS" Check back for further details!
Don't forget to stop by this month's A.G.C.A.P. Dealer of the Month;s booths located on Aisle 2 South Booth D 5 & 6, Aisle 3 North Booth E-3, and Aisle 1 South Booth R-1 & 2. Below is just a small sample of what he has to offer.
He has some great decorator items and other unique finds!
Now I would like to share an article from Ask.com on Sheraton Style Furniture.
SHERATON STYLE FURNITURE
Sheraton-influenced furniture dates from about 1790-1820. It's named for the London furniture designer and teacher Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806), who trained as a cabinetmaker, but is known for his written guides, especially his first, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, published 1791-94. A neoclassic style, it falls within the Federal period in the U.S.
Sheraton's work often overlaps with that of British designer George Hepplewhite, whose 1788 guidebook, like Sheraton's, documented the designs of the day. However, the slightly later Sheraton style tends to be simpler, almost severe, and favors "a fiercely rectilinear silhouette," according to American Furniture: 1620 to the Present, by Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. Few pieces actually built by Sheraton survive today. But his designs and ideas influenced entire generations of furniture-makers, especially in the young U.S., as seen in the works of early American masters such as Duncan Phyfe, Samuel McIntire, and John and Thomas Seymour.
Sheraton Style Legs:
In contrast to the popular cabriole legs of earlier styles, such as Queen Anne and Chippendale, Sheraton pieces usually have straight, sometimes tapered, legs; occasionally the back legs would be splayed. They are often rounded (another distinction from Hepplewhite, who preferred a square shape), and frequently have reeded edges, in imitation of Classical columns. They are joined sometimes with stretchers.
Sheraton Style Feet:
Complementing the slim, straight legs of a chair or table, Sheraton-style feet are usually simple: a rectangular spade foot, a cylindrical foot or a tapered arrow foot. Bracket or bun feet might appear on heavier pieces, such as chests, desks and bookcases.
Woods Used in Sheraton Style Pieces:
Because Sheraton furniture is characterized by contrasting veneers and inlays, pieces often contain more than one type of wood. For the base, satinwood was a favorite, but mahogany and beech were also popular. For the decorative elements, common woods included tulipwood, birch, ash and rosewood. Since craftsmen frequently used the local woods at hand, American versions of Sheraton's designs might use cedar, cherry, walnut or maple as well.
Other Sheraton Style Features:
Sheraton is known for its light, elegant appearance, especially delicate compared to earlier Queen Anne and Chippendale styles.
Pieces are embellished with small, low-relief carvings or painted designs, along with intricately patterned and detailed marquetry and veneers, often in dramatically contrasting woods. Some pieces are completely painted, dyed, or japanned (coated with a thick black lacquer).
Common motifs include drapery swags, lyres, ribbons, fans, feathers, urns and flowers.
Typical hardware on case pieces includes lion's heads, stamped plates, rosettes and urns.
Pieces have simple but strong, well-proportioned geometric shapes, usually square or rectangular. Sofa and chair arms often flow cleanly into the back, without a noticeable break, and the backs themselves are square-shaped. The square-back sofa with exposed arms and reeded legs (see photo) is perhaps the quintessential Sheraton piece.
Sheraton is credited with popularizing the placement of gathered silk behind the glass doors of bookcases, cabinets and sideboards. He had a penchant for including secret drawers and mechanisms for sliding sections on secretaries, tables and desks.
Later Sheraton Styles:
Sheraton's later books, especially The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopedia published in 1805, show a shift in his style, towards the developing Empire mode: the designs are heavier, gilded, with more solid turned legs, and even claw feet. Cane or rush seats retain some of the lightness of his earlier pieces.
British furniture manufacturers began reviving Hepplewhite styles in the 1880s. Though many have become collectibles in their own right, these mass-produced reproductions tend to lack the lightness and intricate detail of authentic period pieces.
In a sense, Hepplewhite furniture has never gone out of style. Features such as the straight back and reeded legs, along with the ideal of a balanced, symmetrical shape, remain standard in classic furniture design.
Other Feet Used on Sheraton Style Furniture
Bracket Foot Bun Foot
Now for the BLOG SPECIAL OF THE WEEK.
This Beautiful solid wood Thomasville Sideboard regular price is $425.00. From Thursday March 22, 2012 until 6:00 p.m. Wednesday March 28,2012 it can be yours for only $325.00! This would be great for a Flat Screen T.V. It has two doors and also two drawers for loads of storage! Code word is "THOMAS" . This great deal is located on Aisle 4 North Booth I-9. Don't let this one get away!
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