August 17, 2010
Old Spanish furniture has three outstanding qualities—-dignified, concentrated interest (ornate or simple) and useful.
When a piece of furniture is beautiful in it’s own right – whether it’s simple or ornate in design – it will hold it’s own in any room.
Traditional Mexican Style Interiors (Schiffer Design Book)
It appears to be harmonious against either [...]
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December 20, 2008
An interesting group of Spanish furniture of the 17th Century shows a pair of arm chairs of walnut covered in a crimson damask and edged with fringe and galoon of the epoch. Above the mantel hangs a portrait oj Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philippe 11 of Spain, by Alonzo Sanches Coello. At each side [...]
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