Wicker furniture has been used since the ancient Egyptians, but most of today’s collectors are buying pieces made in the 1800s and 1900s.
In the early 1830s, a Boston grocer named Cyrus Wakefield was watching ships unpacking cargo. Bundles of rattan wrapping were discarded. He thought it might be suitable as a material for furniture, [...]

Christie’s sale of English furniture on Monday in New York includes some 18th-century Irish antiques, each carefully notated in the catalog with a typically Irish winged-harp symbol. The harp is helpful, because it can be difficult to identify 18th-century Irish antiques.
Even experts become confused, but help is on the way. Yale University Press has just [...]

Beautifully-crafted garden benches and bird boxes catch the eyes of shoppers strolling along Newland Avenue in the sunshine.
The craftsmanship belies the price tags, causing many to stop to admire the work before heading inside the shop.
For a bargain price of £55, you can snap up a three-seater garden bench. Cube-shaped planters start at [...]

The Smithsonian collection from Bernhardt Furniture is based not only on pieces owned by the popular museums in Washington, D.C., but also on the structures themselves. The pattern in the glass front of a china cabinet, for instance, is based on a window in the Castle, the original museum dating to 1855.
The sleek and [...]

Marquis to flog his mansion and furniture for £20m
A PIECE of Scottish history is to go under the hammer in a £20million sale of the century.
Dumfries House and its fabulous collection of furniture is to be sold by the Marquis of Bute.
One Chippendale bookcase alone is expected to fetch up to £4million and set a [...]

Three floors of the Bard Graduate Center, at 18 West 86th Street in Manhattan, are filled with curvy, modern, bent and laminated beech easy chairs and chaise longues with woven, webbed seating — perfect for any beach house. There are daybeds with adjustable reading stands and companion floor-level book “cribs,” armchairs with rotating bases [...]

Following the success of his January 13 wide ranging sale, Jack Eubanks, owner of Jack Eubanks Auction in Brevard, NC, will offer his bidders a diverse inventory of over 600 lots from a wide variety of consignors and living estates in North Carolina. Several fine lots of pre Civil War Southern furniture will cross the [...]

Located at 105-4th Ave. NW next to Home Sweet Home, The House Next Door is owned by Betty Wood, who opened the specialty shop in September 2000. The shop focuses more on old furniture and antiques that have both a rustic and primitive look.
“Some of the items I sell look like they’re from the colonial [...]

LEWISTOWN - Two local men have joined forces to open a new retail store in Mifflin County that specializes in antique furniture reproductions.
Primworks LLC is the name of the business created by partners Paul “Butch” Richard and Barry Marker, both of Lewistown. The new store is located at 821 Electric Ave., near Berube’s Crystal Clear [...]

During her long career as a registered nurse, Doris Rosen of Salinas cultivated another interest, painting antique wooden furniture.
She’d paint pieces she found at flea markets and at estate sales.
“I’d find old dressers and decorative items,” Rosen said Thursday. “I found a bed.”
“If I saw a pick-up truck loaded with old furniture and headed for [...]