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Article: Anglo-American forever.(Georgian era English and American antique furniture)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Collecting fads come and go, but the perennially appealing English and American furniture of the Georgian age continues to be the backbone of the antiques market
Every decade rediscovers a forgotten period in the history of design. In the 1960s it was Art Nouveau, in the 1970s Art Deco, in the 1980s Biedermeier, and in the 1990s--a decade notoriously slow in defining itself--it is classical Chinese. But decade in and decade out, nothing seems to shake the abiding affection that the American collecting public has for English and American antiques from 1700 to 1850.
Evidence of that constant taste will be found in abundance at New York's Winter Antiques ...