Furniture and Decorative Arts
The world of things always contains important and valuable information about the time of their creation, about the production and social relations at certain period which influenced greatly the whole life of people who created or used those things. Furniture relates to man’s movable, mobile property – it can be seen even it the origin of the word in many languages: the word comes from the Latin «mobilis» (mobile), in French it is meuble, in Italian – mobile, in Spanish – meubles. But more often furniture is connected with some inner space, with the interior the peculiarity of which it is served to emphasize…
| 20.07.2006 | Lighting fixtures in Russia
The most important in lighting fixtures is their functional features. Different types, forms, and sizes correspond to different tasks that customers brought before producers |
| 19.07.2006 | Porcelain tables of the Imperial factory
From the second half of the XVIII century the Imperial Porcelain Factory started to produce various porcelain objects: vases, clock cases, decorative compositions — the so-called "china pyramids&... |
| 18.07.2006 | Mirrors in antique shops
Small hand mirrors with a reflecting face made of polished metal rather than of glass were widespread in Russia many years ago. |
| 02.08.2005 | Study: birth, history, modernity
Addressing to a history of studies, we shall note that the word «study» has two meanings. The first is «a room for occupations or business receptions», the second — «a subject of furniture». |
| 26.05.2005 | In the conext of empire
The Empire style (French Empire — Empire, Latin imperium — command, authority) was conceived in the epoch of Napoleon Bonaparte and afterwards was spread in other countries, part... |
| 02.04.2002 | David Rentgen and the furniture of Russian classicism
In the art of furniture of XVIII century works of the prominent German master David Rentgen (1743-1807) occupy a special place. Being in one row with his famous contemporaries and brothers of craft he... |
