All about Antiques :Rustic Antiques

When you think you can imagine a rustic antique chair with carved almost backs deer horn, a table with legs bent willow, or perhaps a beautiful woven basket? For many collectors of this style antiques, simplicity and charm of life in their country is filled with excitement as searching for the perfect addition to furnish their home or add to their collection.Identifying trades Rustic

Often these nearly finished pieces of furniture such as Adirondack folk art creations and have no marks or signatures of any manufacturer, as was typical for early artists and furniture makers of that time to sign their works. Every single item was handmade from nature, using twigs, burls, tree bark, roots, animal horns, and other natural gifts, and each one has stood the test of time.

On the basis of individual characteristics and artistic style, it is possible to match some of the works furniture makers them. This is done by comparing the design of the piece, the materials used and construction techniques with known works by a number of furniture manufacturers. Three of the best known furniture makers of the time Ernest Stowe who lived in the Adirondacks, North Carolina, Reverend Benjamin Davis, and Thomas Molesworth, who was from Wyoming.
The popularity of this natural style furniture country led to the development of companies that manufactured objects that were typical of rustic designs. One of the most famous mass producers of the time was the Old Hickory Furniture Company. Today, antique rustic furniture is often identified with pictures from old catalogs, such as Old Hickory.Rustic decorative pieces
Many collectors enjoy antique rustic searching for unusual household items such as handmade Amish baskets, clocks are set by twigs, old metal sap buckets, or wooden dough bowls. Some of these collectors cherished finds use in their daily lives, while others prefer to use them only for decorative purposes. These types of everyday utilitarian antiques add touches of rural life in every home, whether it is completely furnished in rustic style or not. It is not uncommon to find a collector that combines these treasures in a house decorated in a different way, as the French state, shabby chic or modern.Original or Reproduction
There are a number of collectors of rustic design to fully and decorate their homes using only authentic items from that period, while others choose to blend with the antique style reproductions wild country. There are many skilled craftsmen today that steep rise handmade furniture in a real authentic way, including Adirondack and Western. Some artists choose not to replicate the original style, rather than create individual pieces that are true to the rugged, rustic style, but unique and unusual design. These artists include Jeff Keyes, the Paul Dumond and Matthew Agnostinis, all well known for their work in the rustic furniture design.Using Rustic Garden Antiques
There are many wonderful rustic antiques that have surpassed the time to add beauty and character to a garden outside. Imagine sitting in a century old Amish barn wood, garden bench as you look at your climbing roses weave their way through a hand-wrought iron pergola from the past. Many collectors of such pieces of garden use, antiques such as cast iron garden figurines, Amish tin barn stars and wooden shovels to their gardens a touch of rustic charm and fun. Often collectors looking for architectural elements to be used outdoors or in garden areas as well. These pieces are hand-forged wrought iron gates, fencepost bird houses and wooden doors.

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