The Story Of English Furniture
The Story Of English Furniture is a living & home improvement program on BBC4. Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus look back over six centuries of furniture-making. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 9 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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The Story Of English Furniture
The last programme in the series examines the contribution of the 20th century and ranges from Edwardian furniture through Utility and on to tubular steel.
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Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus explore the splendour of the Regency period, as reflected in the flamboyant Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
The Great Exhibition, William Morris, art nouveau and a stylistic free-for-all. Hugh Scully explores the Victorian period, when furniture was produced on a scale never seen before.
This edition focuses on the work and classical styles of 18th-century Scottish architect and furniture-maker Robert Adam.
Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus look at the work of Gillows, Hepplewhite and Sheraton and see how new and exotic woods, brought back from voyages of discovery, are used to great effect.
Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus look at the work of the most famous name in English furniture, Thomas Chippendale, who started a revolution in design.
When William and Mary ascended the throne, an influx of Dutch and German craftsmen meant the baroque style was in vogue. This period also saw the decline in popularity of marquetry.
June 2024
Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus go back in time to the medieval and Elizabethan period to explore the emergence of a distinctive English style of furniture.
Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus take a closer look at furniture made in the Jacobean and Restoration period. Designs were severe until a Continental influence arrived with the Restoration of Charles II.