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Regency Furniture At The Clarence House

Antique Chandeliers Clarence House

Clarence House is located in London in the city of Westminster. For over 50 years it was the residence of the Queen Mother and was also the official residence of H.R.H. Prince Charles and Camilla until 2009. The house was commissioned by William IV and built between 1825~ 1827 by John [...]

Regency Drum Tables

Regency Furniture- Walnut Drum Card Games Casino Roulette Table From Abbey Antiques Ebay

Abbey Antiques is selling a sensational burl walnut George III / George IV / Regency design games roulette table. The table stands on a very attractive burl walnut and carved gilt paw and wing foot tripod base with the paws with decorative Eros wings [...]

Thomas Hope - Regency Furniture Designer

Thomas Hope

We are familiar with the interiors and furniture of Thomas Hope chiefly through his 1807 book, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, and its exquisitely restrained plates composed of thin black outlines on white grounds, free of all shading, shadow, or color. And so, faced here with more than 400 color illustrations of the [...]

Buscot Park's Regency Furniture

Buscot Park Hall- Pair of Ebonised Gilt chairs From The Thomas Hope Suite

Buscot Park is a glorious example of the Regency style. The estate was built by Edward Loveden Loveden between 1779 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. The house was inspired by the architecture of the great Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio.  Most of [...]

Decorating With Vintage Trunks

Don’t discount a vintage trunk the next time you run across one in an antique or second hand store. Decorating with trunks presents limitless opportunities around your home. Almost every decorating photograph involving trunks shows Louis Vuitton trunks, but you don’t have to limit yourself to name brand luggage. There has been countless times where [...]

White Painted Furniture

Regency Empire Furniture Ideas

Picture Credit The Enchanted House Blog

Often times when people think about decorating with a particular color, they automatically gravitate by painting the walls that hue and accessorizing with coordinating furniture.  There certainly isn’t anything wrong with that approach, although for many people who adore bold pops of color they tend to be [...]

Regency Georgian Furniture

George III -King of Great Britain and King of Ireland

George III (George William Frederick, 4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801.  He was then King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and [...]

Luxurious Italian Villas

I AM LOVE Movie – Italian Decorating – On The Set of I Am LOVE – Set in Milan

I Am Love was a 2009 Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino set around 2000 in Milan. The film follows a haute bourgeoisie family through changing times and fortunes. The wealthy Recchi family are first and [...]