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Furniture produced before 1800, particularly during the Georgian period, when cabinetmakers began to favour mahogany over the previously popular oak and walnut, is usually referred to as ‘Period’ furniture. Styles of Period furniture are often associated with particular designers’ firms: from the classicism of Adam, to the chinoiserie and rococo of Chippendale and on to the more refined and elegant Hepplewhite and Sheraton. Not only London firms produced fine specimens of furniture; provincial cabinetmakers, working from designs published in volumes such as Chippendale’s Director, also made pieces of magnificent quality. (Caroline Hickson - Antiques Dealer at Hemswell).

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Also, 20th Century pieces are included in the listings for Period Furniture.