A Brief History of Chinese Furniture: Identifying different the six main types of Chinese antique furniture part 6: Old Shanghai rosewood and art deco furniture
Old Shanghai
How to identify Antique Chinese Furniture using the 6 main schools. Part 1: Suzhou style.
Identifying the style of Chinese furniture can be tricky for the uninitiated but here we make it simple, starting with the first of six main schools: Suzhou Style
A brief history of colonial “old Shanghai” style Art Deco furniture
Old Shanghai furniture can be roughly broken down into three categories, which correspond to the stages of the city’s development as well as to the style of buildings in which the majority of the population resided. These started with the shikumen longtang, which dominated from the mid Nineteenth Century up until about 1920, through the […]