vintage living room sets for sale

swedish design: light, gilded and very simple in form. this is what we think of when we consider swedish furniture. gustav iii returned to sweden from versailles where he'd stayed at the court of louis xvi and brought with him neoclassical design. he began to redesign the interiors of his palaces with a new, pure form based upon classical forms from

ancient rome and greece. a table such as this incorporates many of those classical elements: it's very architectural. you'll see at the top is like a lintel from a building with a cornice, fish-scale motif running around here above beads with applied parmet motifs - all in cast lead imitating bronze. this all sits above four very elaborately

carved and turned legs. what is particularly nice is the combination of burnished water gilding and matt water gilding. these upper elements here are using a much drier gilding above these phenomenally bright reflective spheres. these in turn are articulated by ebonised parmets and then above a very very highly burnished giltwood key motif.

the legs are turned and carved; again articulated with ebonised details these parmets here. it's very very pleasing to look at because there's a very great deal of diversity in the actual surface decoration. these terminate in a plinth which is faux marble, so painted to look like an exotic rare italian marble, and in the center there is a finial which is

essentially a stylized artichoke. the table really needs something there in the middle it's quite nice of that there because it actually enhances what would otherwise be a very open space. a table such as this would have been made to accommodate a single object perhaps a porphyry urn, a piece of porcelain or maybe a single candelabrum. sweden is a

dark country during the winter months and pieces like this, certainly, would have held a light giving objects for the the darker time of the year. it has form, it has architectural integrity. it has tremendously fine ornament throughout it's an eye-catching piece which could be used practically - but also as an eye catcher in any interior setting.

simple, handsome and refined.

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