Antiquities-Interrelation of Furniture Designs
During recnt decades collectors, more than ever before, have placed emphasis on quality,interest,rarity and beauty in the purchase of antique furniture.Despite the desire to own examples which are authentic, and whose value will increase, colleectors have given little attention tto certain essential knowledge pertaining to design. The great schools of furniture design which arose in Europe following the Dark Ages received their stimuli not only from local talent butr from designers and craftsmen attracted from adjoining or even distant areas.Skills thus cultivated and fostered whedre by no means stationary. Craftsmen not only visitedthe large centers to improve their techniques, but they later carried their newly acquired skills to their own or other countrys.Leading craftsmen of these centers also visited or established themselves elsewhre.Consequently, designs and tectonic methods whre intermingled and widely spread. Some maintained continuity with the principles of a pa...