Scottish antique furniture & works of art
It is important, therefore, that we should live in rooms and on chairs built to our
measure by the most skilled upholsterers.|“No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!”.|I also have intense relationships with furniture...probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.|The best pair of Scottish 18th century chairs I've ever seen.|A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easy. That is why Chippendale is famous.|When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.|In his hill bothy he made his porridge once a week in the big bothy pot and then poured it into the drawer of a chest - there to be cut into cold slices when he needed it.|She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.|For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music.|I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums|First Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
John Maynard Keynes from The Influence of Furniture on Love, unpublished essay 1909|Arthur Conan Doyle|Barbra Streisand|James Hardie|Mies van der Rohe|Robert Redford|Quoted by Timothy Neat in The Horseman's Word|P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves|Sam Shepard|Zaha Hadid|William Cowper|Jane Austen, from Persuasion|Frank Lloyd Wright|Fran Leibowitz|John Hurt|Alberto Giacometti|Robert de Niro|Anon|Osbert Lancaster on Lytton Strachey|John Buchan from John Macnab|Thomas Hardy's Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba in Far From the Madding Crowd
And Luxury the accomplish’d Sopha last|A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world|I have been black and blue, in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture|No animal should ever swing up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in conversation|We’re all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly|Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life copying a chair|If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it|If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring your own chair|He had something of the reflective air of a pelican|They wandered back to the house, and Janet gave him tea in a room full of faded chintzes and Chinese-Chippendale mirrors.|"I am sorry that my chairs all have wood seats, and are rather hard, but I was thinking of getting some new ones"... "They are quite easy enough for me"