Tag: Edwin Foley

Making your home look older than it is. Even a post modern ranch house will look like Mary Queen of Scots is about to visit. Imagery from Edwin Foley’s “The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history.” Published in London by T. C. and E. C. Jack in 1910-1911.

Fourteenth-century buttressed coffer. Image 4 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d5d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=e995c3f0-c6ce-012f-d28a-58d385a7bc34#page/5/mode/2up
 Late Gothic schrank. In the Bavarian Museum, Munich, with hanging light (leuchterweibschen), from Albert Dürer’s house at Nuremburg. Image 6 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d5d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=e995c3f0-c6ce-012f-d28a-58d385a7bc34#page/7/mode/2up
 The panelled study at Groombridge Place, Kent. By permission of the Misses Saint. Image 12 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d5d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=e995c3f0-c6ce-012f-d28a-58d385a7bc34#page/13/mode/2up
Upholstered chair and couch with adjustable ends. The property of Lord Sackville, Knole Park, ca. 1600. Image 17 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d5d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=e995c3f0-c6ce-012f-d28a-58d385a7bc34#page/17/mode/2up
Carved oak bedstead of Jeanne D’Albret, dated 1562. From the Château de Pau, mobillier national de France. Image 24 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d5d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=e995c3f0-c6ce-012f-d28a-58d385a7bc34#page/25/mode/2up
 Walnut kas inlaid and with painted medallions of Delft ware. The Pruyn Collection, Albany, USA. Image 35 from Edwin Foley’s The book of decorative furniture: its form, colour, and history. Published in London, England in 1910-1911. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d7e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99