Swedish Furniture
February 11th, 2009
The gilded Louis XVI pieces you might find today are likely to have come from the public rooms of palaces and houses of the Swedish aristocracy and merchant class. Although the pieces are very ornate, the shapes are clean: oval backed sofas and chairs and rectangular backed sofas, with reeding on the legs and carved rosettes and flourishes at the tops of the backrests. These pieces are expensive and a couple of carvers would cost you around £2,000 while a marble topped console table would set you back £4,000.
It is quite difficult to find genuine Swedish antiques in the UK and you need to find a dealer who specializes in Swedish antiques and furniture and who, ideally, has good connections in Sweden. Continue reading »
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