Monthly Archives: August 2015

Picture This LIVIII

Posted on 26th August 2015 by Jack Plane

Dear Mr. Coulter, I am today sending down a high cheſt which is altogether too large for my preſent needs. I would you remove the cheſt from the handſome legs and work a new top in Walnutree with a nice … Continue reading →

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Boring!

Posted on 18th August 2015 by Jack Plane

My apologies to anyone opening this post expecting to read about a stunning antique or news of my latest furniture-making exploits. No, this post is about a persistent technical topic that came to a head this morning with the arrival, … Continue reading →

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Huguenot Influence at Boughton House

Posted on 12th August 2015 by Jack Plane

I have written before about the impact Huguenot refugees had on English furniture and other arts from the end of the seventeenth-century. Bendor Grosvenor posted an interesting piece about Boughton House on his blog yesterday, The Huguenots at ‘Britain’s Versailles’. … Continue reading →

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Crapping and Roses

Posted on 9th August 2015 by Jack Plane

Crapping and Rose’s timber yard was one of the many dotted along the South Bank of the River Thames in late eighteenth-century London. Horwood’s Plan of the cities of London and Westminster shows the yards stretched from Westminster Bridge eastwards beyond … Continue reading →

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