Regency Household: Fashionable Chairs

Plate and description appeared in Modern Furniture: Consisting of Forty-four Coloured Engravings (1824).

Plate and description appeared in Modern Furniture: Consisting of Forty-four Coloured Engravings (1824).

The plate and description appeared in the 1824 Modern Furniture collection. According to the description, this was the height of deshabille fashion!

This design plate appeared in George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decorwtion in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste: Continue

From A New System of Practical Domestic Economy (1823) is a delightful recipe for preparing potpourri to keep rooms smelling nice and gently fragrant: “An Continue