Eastlake Style Furniture
Eastlake himself saw his style as being one of sturdy and simple craftsmanship.
Eastlake style furniture. Eastlake walnut 3 door bookcase. Furniture drawer pull eastlake drawer pull antique style pull solid brass cabinet pulls 2 1 2 center to center holes restorehardware from shop restorehardware. In the early 1900s critics of eastlake furniture rejoiced that the era of the dreadful eastlake style was over.
The lines are more geometric with modest curves if any and light carving. It was manufactured by factories in the east that had branch offices in midwest cities. Antique vintage old carved eastlake solid wood wooden side dining accent chair.
Carpenters also made pieces of furniture from patterns in this style for their homes and for customers. He was an architect so charles. Victorian eastlake style grand mirror.
To some the style signaled that popular taste seemed to be dead it would appear taste was then as it remains now an extremely subjective matter. This is true of the architecture furniture decor details. Eastlake style as it is referred is the common name for his style of furniture which became widespread throughout the last half of the nineteenth century.
In architecture the eastlake style or eastlake architecture is part of the queen anne style of victorian. He personally hated machine made furniture but he was not a furniture maker himself. Like duncan phyfe furniture eastlake style furniture is frequently seen in antique shops all over the united states but especially in the east and midwest.
The eastlake furniture style as envisioned by its namesake charles lock eastlake came about as a response to his aversion to the over the top rococo revival and renaissance revival styles popular during the victorian era. Marble top victorian wooden dresser vintage eastlake style furniture. Charles eastlake furniture was the brainchild of charles eastlake 1836 1906 a british furniture designer and architect.