Finding The Right Antique Rocking Chair For Your Home
In an artistically decorated house, an antique rocking chair can be such a precious addition wherever you might choose to place it ?in the drawing room, front porch, a bedroom. If you're on the lookout for an old-fashioned rocker, you'll find that the Victorian style is the most readily available kind. If you look through places in New England, colonial rockers shouldn't be difficult to come across. There is no need if you are in mind of an antique rocking chair though, to restrict yourself to the most readily available designs. Look around, and you will find antique rockers from dozens of different design periods. They usually go well with almost any home decor plan you might have in mind.
In the beginning, rocking chairs weren't purpose built. They were very obviously simple, regular chairs that just had rockers ?bent strips of wood ?attached to them. It was only sometime in the early 19th century that real rocking chairs, of the kind that we would recognize as such today, came to become popular around the country.
One of the first kinds of popular rocker was the Brentwood, an import from Vienna in Europe. These were chairs crafted by a much-admired European wood craftsmen's establishment called Thonet Brothers. The curvilinear design of the Brentwood antique rocking chair has worked itself over the years into the modern furniture craftsman's repertoire so thoroughly that you will often see shades of influence from the Brentwood antique rocking chair in lots of kinds of furniture today.
In the Victorian era, they really loved plush rockers. To many, the upholstered Victorian rocker is somehow the quintessential American antique rocking chair. They call it the Lincoln rocker sometimes because President Lincoln used just such a chair at the Ford theater the night he was assassinated.
The Mission rockerer is another upholstered classic. This short and Spartan-looking design can nevertheless be very comfortable for how wide it is and how it's upholstered in leather. It's considered the ultimate man's rocker.
So if you really are tempted by the idea of the real antique rocking chair in your home, where do you you go to buy such a piece? Nearly any antique store or auction will usually feature a few attractive models any time. But if you want a specific design from a specific era, you really have to search a bit. If you canę° find something in the antique stores in your area, websites like eBay, Go Antiques, Mr.Beasley's and Ruby Lane can be very helpful.
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