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This link will take you to the Regional Furniture Society’s  Approved Constitution adopted at July 2017 AGM.

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A recent find. Windsor side chair with vase splat, lath stiles, fantail with two bracing sticks, bell-shaped seat with pronouced saddle, turned front legs with pear-shaped turning above reel #18thcentury #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #antiques #history #interiors #vernacularfurniture #windsorchair #windsorarmchair #recycling #design #ash #elm #beech #yewwood #fruitwood #thamesvalley #countryfurniture #countrylife #chair #chairmaking
Quatrefoil guilloche motif on #chest at #AbbeyDore Church Golden Valley #herefordshire #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
#Lincolnshire comb back #Windsorchair by Marsh #Sleaford, with curved crest rail, with 8 long sticks, the outer of which are turned stiles above the arm bow, which is chamfered at its ends, 6 short sticks, turned underarms straight seat sides, ring and cove front leg turnings with 1 lower ring, plain back legs, H stretcher with darts. #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #antiques #history #interiors #vernacularfurniture
Vacuum pump C18th, bought by Roger Warner in 1938 for £45. #scientificinstrument #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
Easy #Chair by James Mein, #Kelso, #Roxburghshire, c.1830
Stylised rather than naturalistic; basically aesthetic
Brander Back #Chair Robert Hodge, #Edinburgh, 1786-88 Maker’s stamp on seat rail David Jones/Architectural Heritage Society of #Scotland #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues 1993
Plate 31 Gillows’ Colour Sketch Book. RH chair patera spindle-back armchair. LH chair ? a ‘drapery-back’. City of Westminster Archive #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
#rushseated rocking #chair two rows of spindles in a 3/3 distribution, stamped I. ROBINSON MAKER’ (fl. 1816–48) G Poulter, B D Cotton #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
#ChestonChest, New Marlborough, #Massachusetts (Housatonic Valley) Ruben Beman,Jr. c.1795-1805
East Anglian plum wood armchair, crest & cross rails squared, 2 tapered laths, amphora-shaped splat, curved rear, tapered front legs, board seat, curved arms morticed into ogee arm stands, #regionalfurniture #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors
Catafalque of the chapelle ardente. Commémoration de la mort d’Anne, reine de France, duchesse de Bretagne, c. 1515. Museum Meermano MMW, 10 C 12 fol. 24v #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #catafalque More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
Canted-top #japanned #rushseated #chair with fleur de lys painted tablets. Private collection #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
Dresser, C18th, from #Yorkshire. This is unusual in having a large hinged lid. Roger Warner #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues 1993
Stained #rushseated #chair, stamped ‘J.&D. BANCROFT’, Chapel Street, #Salford #Lancashire (1808–1815). Private collection #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues
#Lincolnshire #rushseated ladder back #armchair inscribed 17 W*H 55 on topmost of 5 shaped ladders, straight back poles, finials, scroll arms morticed into turned legs #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors
Comb back #Lincolnshire #Windsorchair probably Camm #Grantham curved crest rail, turned stiles, 8 long spindles 6 short, turned arm stands, straight seat sides, ring & cove front legs with 1 lower ring, #regionalfurniture #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #interiors
#Clockcase by John Summerscales, Lincoln, c.1815 Printed paper label inside trunk Brian Loomes #regionalfurniture #regionalfurnituresociety #vernacular #antiques #recycle #craft #history #design #interiors More at link in bio - Publications>Journal>Journal Back Issues 1993

18th century Windsor Chairs

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Useful links

Sites of Regional Furniture Interest

Lincolnshire Windsor & Rush-seated Chairs
Directory of 19th century furniture makers
Peter Follansbee – Joiner
James Reilly chairs
Lincolnshire chairs on Flickr
Philip Clissett
Furniture from Early Modern Scotland

Organisations and Societies
Vernacular Architecture Group
Tools and Trades History Society
United Kingdom Institute for Conservation
The British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association
The British Antique Dealers’ Association
The Association of Art and Antique Dealers 
The Furniture History Society 
The Antiquarian Horological Society
The Pewter Society
The Churches Conservation Trust
The National Trust
English Heritage
The Association of Polelathe Turners and Greenwood Workers

Museums & Collections
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
Museum of the Home (formerly Geffrye Museum)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Wycombe Museum
The Frederick Parker Collection
St Fagans National History Museum
Ceredigion Museum
Glasgow Museums
The Burrell Collection (Furniture)

Research Resources
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online
The National Archives
British Library
Institute of Historical Research
Economic History Services
Access to Archives (A2A) 
Old Bailey Online
People’s Collection Wales

 

Publications

RFS Newsletter Spring 2013 1
RFS NL 59 page 1
Cover 2015
RFS Journal 2012
RFS Newsletter Autumn 2012_Page_1
RFS Autumn 2014 newsletter cover (large)
Journal 1995
Cover 2013
Cover 2014_Page_1
Newsletter Spring 2014
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