Antique Furniture: The style of the furniture through the ages

Detention and collection of antique furniture is the next opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the time that had to be new. Therefore, there is an interest that in collecting antique, or through the purchase if you're an avid collector, or looking for information for yourself when you are in the style of past generations are affected.

Collectors, how to compare the various furniture covering over various periods of time and admire the different changes of style in their possession. Not everyone is rich enough to buy a part or any time piece of antique furniture, so if you're the best course of antiques is to buy the magazines, museums, visit your local antique shops, go to antique fairs and specialized auction houses. In this way, you will be a better understanding of antique furniture and the changes that have spanned the centuries, that time has its own style.

Antiques and antique furniture can really help us to change the story of how the styles and models to understand the needs and general living conditions reflect the times. Change of style is challenging, but they never seem less progressive and how these changes have taken place is an interesting journey. If you find more, there are many books that specialize on other people's time, and characterizes the style of interest.

During the 1300 the main style that "Gothic" and was nailed to bench, chairs, beds and panels if the label of the products together. Shortly after, the beautiful work followed the Renaissance of cabinetmakers Florence.

Those of you, love is an attraction richly decorated in Baroque style for special wood that is increasingly popular, with its lush landscapes and images of angels and masks, cornucopias of fruit and flowers. Then you have the rococo and classical style, then, the Empire style, with decorations, which usually is marked swans.

More and more shop are furnished with antiques of the 19th century, and this attracts the most fans of furniture, or are collectors and lovers of the furniture in general. After this period, the Art Nouveau style, and closely follows the style of our present.

You can literally spend hours reading about styles briefly outlined above. Each style is a little mirror of a bygone era and our present lives enriched by our houses with beautiful furniture.