The Sculptural Simplicity of Ole Wanscher s T-Chair – SURFACE
surfacemag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from surfacemag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Finding Forgotten Furniture - Mansion Global
mansionglobal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mansionglobal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Object lesson: Decor to Go Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle February 19, 2021
All photographs courtesy of Christopher Clarke Antiques, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
In February 1873, George A. Smith, Lorenzo Snow, and their respectable American and English travel companions dug into a typical British supper before retiring for the evening to their “rooms.” Each abode, complete with an iron bedstead, tables, stools, ample bedding, and lush carpets, would have been nearly indistinguishable from a well-appointed guest room in London or Bath, but for the canvas walls that betrayed that they were bedding down in tents a short distance from Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate. The next day, the rugs would be rolled, the bedding stowed, the iron beds broken down, and the campstools folded up. Each item would be securely lashed to one of the more than one hundred packhorses and mules that made up the caravan in the extravagant package trips orchestrated by the agents of travel pione