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Originally Posted by aschen
I've known plenty of well off people that pay 35k for a dining room table and a few k for each chair, modern built from the craftsmen. I could not care less about fancy furniture however.
Its the unique combination of confidence and being wrong. Like ferrari suv. If an ff is an suv then a cat is a dog. But you went with "yes I did". Wrong and strong like "yes I can"
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You do not read critically, I said "Work of art or antique"....Sam Maloff was a noted furniture maker of Modern furniture who used to live right up the street from me in Alta Loma. The Smithsonian Institution filmed him working as he was considered to be a National Treasure Upon his death his home was going to be turned in a museum, half of it already was a museum. His craftsmanship is considered to be a work of art. Jimmy Carter was a noted customer of his (a Rocking chair). So yes there are Craftsmen whose work is beyond the pale. That was my caveat if you had read critically.
Antique furniture from the Colonial and Federalist period are also considered to be works of art as they were all
handcrafted to very high standards. Did you ever see a Chipendale Dining room arm chair with the hand carved Ball and Claw feet. Actually timeless in appeal. I have an
accurate recreation made under license by Kindel in Grand Rapids, where the original resides in the Henry Dupont Museum in Maryland known as the Wineteaur. An original Pie Crust table like the one that was under license by Kindel sold for 1M USD in the mid 80's at auction. Kindel also under license from the Wineteaur made a Thomas Goddard Rhode Island desk one of 6 known, where an original sold for 14M in the mid 80's.
For instance the Kindel Pie Crust Table has 23 hours of hand carving involved in it's manufacture. Kindel furniture is really second to none in it's manufacture. It is considered or was to be ultra high end furniture. In the past America made some really good furniture by companies like Kittenger, Widicomb and Union Bay, but those companies like so much else are now gone.
Baker Furniture (Holland, MI)in their Stately Homes Collection has license with the British National Trust where they too make licensed accurate recreations of furniture in the Trust. One of their their pieces is a Pembroke Table the original of which resides in Invery Castle in Scotland owned by the Duke of Argyl (priceless) that has seven different types of wood inlaid into it. In its construction the craftsmen to get a shading effect on the wood pieces would slide them through a bucket of hot sand as the original craftsmen did in the late 1700's. So like Kindel, Baker Stately Home furniture is second to none. BTW I have one of those Baker Pembroke Tables.
The other extant ultra high end American furniture mfg is Karges, however their furniture can be considered to be hybrids of the original or classic styles. I now think that Karges and Kindel are owned by the same company. Furniture built to their exacting standards and quality is simply too expensive to be a viable mfg anymore.
Then there is Columbo Stile being the oldest furniture mfg in Rome Italy. Which I posted a link to in a previous post. They at one time made a Rhode Island style desk whose figured burl Mahogny would knock your socks off. Their price in 1990 was 35K.
Further you still don't get that you were being played with the YES I CAN routine? Hmmpt...are you really that dense? I told you that FLAT OUT in a previous post.
Regardless of what you want to call that Ferrari it was a Ferrari parked in front of a THRIFT STORE. END OF STORY AND DISCUSSION as does it really matter what model?