English club

The furniture show: what the famous English style looks like today

Passing the gallery

Materials prepared: Zarina Dzgoeva

Magazine: N5 (83) 2004

English classics have chosen Birmingham as their headquarters, a city with an industrial history and a set of cultural events corresponding to it. The furniture show (as for the name, here the British hardly deserved a reproach of originality) - the most important of them, of course, after football matches. But it’s still worth making the 4-hour journey from London to Birmingham - at least to see what the famous English style looks like todayEngland, England ... Birmingham is good above all by the classical English: rare guests at continental exhibitions, here they are in the majority. Of course, one cannot equate English factories and English classics (Spaniards, French and Italians make English classics, and the British have long been working in continental styles), but the big three — Sheraton, Hepwaywhite, Chippendale — and variations on the theme of regency and the Victorian era must be bought from the locals. Whether the mahogany is redder here, or the legs-paws are more realistic, or the comrades who sell them resemble English lords and butlers, but somehow it immediately becomes clear that it is a fake and that the original. Most expensive In fact, things truly revolutionary in this very classic took place two centuries ago. Since then, the British live with memories of the golden age and, by the way, quite good dividends from it, successfully selling their style with its slightly heavy forms, curved legs and floral upholstery. Fearing that the tendencies would not go unnoticed, the owners of the exhibition specially voiced them. This time, the list includes: fusion of modern and traditional elements in the design, and from materials - wood, leather with a pronounced texture, tweed and textured wool.

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