Eastlake Style Furniture
He personally hated machine made furniture but he was not a furniture maker himself.
Eastlake style furniture. Like duncan phyfe furniture eastlake style furniture is frequently seen in antique shops all over the united states but especially in the east and midwest. Charles eastlake furniture was the brainchild of charles eastlake 1836 1906 a british furniture designer and architect. Furniture drawer pull eastlake drawer pull antique style pull solid brass cabinet pulls 2 1 2 center to center holes restorehardware from shop restorehardware.
Marble top victorian wooden dresser vintage eastlake style furniture. To some the style signaled that popular taste seemed to be dead it would appear taste was then as it remains now an extremely subjective matter. Eastlake himself saw his style as being one of sturdy and simple craftsmanship.
American victorian eastlake style rosewood table 26 pair of 19th century eastlake andirons by smith anthony pair of 19th c. In the early 1900s critics of eastlake furniture rejoiced that the era of the dreadful eastlake style was over. Victorian eastlake style grand mirror.
Carpenters also made pieces of furniture from patterns in this style for their homes and for customers. The eastlake movement was a nineteenth century architectural and household design reform movement started by british architect and writer charles eastlake 1836 1906. In architecture the eastlake style or eastlake architecture is part of the queen anne style of victorian.
Eastlake walnut 3 door bookcase. American eastlake walnut pedestals an antique set of his and hers eastlake side chairs. He was an architect so charles.
The eastlake furniture style as envisioned by its namesake charles lock eastlake came about as a response to his aversion to the over the top rococo revival and renaissance revival styles popular during the victorian era. Antique vintage old carved eastlake solid wood wooden side dining accent chair. The lines are more geometric with modest curves if any and light carving.