Antique Bamboo Furniture

The design influences on antique bamboo furniture extend back through the aesthetic philosophers of the 18th century to the poets of classical Asia. In the writings of both Horace and Ovid the virtue of grottoes, as mad-made natural wilderness within formal gardens, are frequently extolled. This unnatural or constructed disorder became a major tenet of 18th century landscape theory contrasting the formality of neo-classicism with the natural spectacle of the sublime. Famous antique bamboo furniture pieces were lavishly designed using natural elements, often antique bamboo furniture with housing fountains with classical sculpture, throughout Europe.

oriental designers and asian craftsmen throughout history, introduced theories on the origins of antique bamboo furniture architectural elements deriving from natural forms. The arch was often drawn as a tree with multiple bent boughs. Such theories were reproduced in the decorative arts and even engraved and enamelled on glass, for instance by the Beilby family in Newcastle. Throughout the years in China, the Chinese developed many ways to design bamboo into furniture, bamboo tables, bamboo chairs, and bamboo beds. antique bamboo cabients during the middle years of the 18th century, this inspiration from natural elements was continuously redefined.

Antique Bamboo Furniture is an exceptional example of the revival of this rococo aesthetic, extending the tradition of naturalised antique bamboo furniture and man controlling nature, by reconstructing a natural twig and branch rustic look from skilfully carved solid timber. This paradox, as with the design of ancient asia, was intended both to stimulate and amuse the enquiring minds of leisured and wealthy asian patrons.

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