English Antique Furniture Timeline
Viewing the history and development of furniture styles in time line form such as this is somewhat artificial but satisfies that part of the western mind which is very lateral and analytical.
Hover your mouse over the names of the English monarchs to put a face to a name.
Date: | Ruler: | Furniture Period: | Styles/ Influences: | Famous Designers: |
1485 | Henry VII |
Early Tudor
|
English Renaissance Gothic, Italianate, Flemish
| . |
1509 | Henry VIII |
1547 | Edward VI |
1553 | Mary |
1558 | Elizabeth I | Late Tudor/ Elizabethan |
1603 | James I | Jacobean
|
1625 | Charles I |
1649 | Cromwell | Commonwealth |
1660 | Charles II | Restoration/Carolean
|
Baroque Dutch, Flemish, French
|
Gerrit Jensen, Daniel Marot |
1685 | James II |
1688 | William III/ Mary II | William & Mary |
1702 | Anne | Queen Anne |
1714 | George I | Early Georgian
| Palladian
| William Kent
|
1727 | George II |
1760 | George III | Mid Georgian
| Rococo French, Gothic, Chinese | Thomas Chippendale |
Late Georgian
Regency
|
Neo-Classical
| Robert Adam, George Hepplewhite, Thomas Sheraton
|
1820 | George IV | Regency
| Egyptian & Greek Revival | Thomas Hope
|
1830 | William IV |
1837 | Victoria | Early Victorian
| Eclectic Revivalist, Gothic | .
|
Late Victorian | Arts & Crafts, Art Furniture | William Morris
|
1901 | Edward VII | Edwardian |