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Mission Furniture For Your Home
Mission style furniture is a style that is popular nowadays. Although most often mistaken for a more contemporary style, the furniture has a history that extends even as far as the 19th century.
Joseph McHugh was the first one to coin the term ‘mission’ to describe a line of furniture with a characteristic clean rural style back in 1895. Mission furniture was the first fruit of the Arts and Crafts movement, a movement that addresses the call for uniqueness, craftsmanship and creativity that seemingly got undermined by the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution, many goods were mass produced and so the artistic side of creating products were not that emphasized anymore. The originality and unique designs were lost when everything can be produced by machines. The furniture was statement pieces that were designed distinct from urban designs that were mass produced. Their clean, rustic style was the key characteristics of the mission . The simplicity of these pieces of furniture gave the artistic flair to any room in the home. The designs, however simple are intricately made.
Most furniture created in the mission design has mixed very well with more contemporary furniture, resulting to confusion. Many mistake mission pieces for more contemporary designs and themes. But the mission design can be easily recognized via the details that the furniture possesses. Most mission style furniture are characterized by simple designs that contain mostly flat lines and slats that contain no soft frills and curves. The legs of the furniture are usually straight and supported by beams or stretchers.
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American Antique Furniture
I have always loved American antique furniture more than anything. When I was a kid, there was an antique furniture store that specialized in American colonial furniture. While most owners of furniture stores would have balked at the idea of a rambunctious little tyke like I was running around their stores, the owners of this particular antique American furniture store welcomed me with open arms – and a few words of caution, of course. They were true collectors, and as such, they liked nothing more than to see someone take an interest in their passion. They would take me under their wing, and from an early age, they started to teach me all that they knew. They would teach me a lot about antiques in general, and American antique furniture in particular. I would love every single minute of it, and that is the truth!
Of course, as I got over, I forgot about American antique furniture for a while. I went off to college, and so I could no longer hang out around that antique store of my childhood. I was immersed in bigger and better things, and used the furniture that all college kids use – stuff garnered from Ikea and Target. Yet, I would still love, every now and then, to go down to the local antiques store and spend an hour or two just browsing through all of the varied American antique furniture, admiring every little thing that I could see. It was really a fantastic time for me, getting to indulge my passion for learning, but sometimes I longed for the world of my childhood.
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