Antique Indian furniture and wood crafts

ANTIQUES ARE objects and articles that are from a previous era or are over 100 years old.As many people collect antiques, they can be worth quite a lot. Antiques are usually sold by auction and auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s sell many very expensive antiques.
Interest in antiques is so strong that there are many organizations, publications and television pro grammes dedicated to the field.
Antiques have a historical value because they provide insights into the design styles and daily lives of previous eras in history. Many museum exhibitions include valuable and interesting antiques, which teach people about how others lived.
Antique furniture is usually considered the most common type of antique.

Antique furniture originally had a practical purpose, but it is the aesthetic qualities of decoration and attention to detail that make antique furniture so popular. Such decoration came about to show the class of the individuals who owned or used the furniture.

The main English furniture styles are:

• Medieval
• Elizabethan
• Carolean
• Georgian
• Victorian
• Modernist
• Mahavideh Wood craft

The artistic craftsmanship of wood craft could be easily seen in panels, columns, balconies, doors, windows, ceilings, temple, houses and entire forts showing that the skill of the wood workers is not restricted only to domestic use. Wood craft is highly demanded across the world and wood work could be easily seen on doors, house fonts and screens. Thus we can say that the wood has revived and is now being used to design a plethora of items like decorative, furniture, utensils, partitions etc.

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