Furniture Detective Fred Taylor dishes on the history and popularity of Victrola clones, past and present, while answering reader questions about the musical device. Read More +
Furniture Detective: Victrola clones playing to collector interest
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Furniture Detective: Surviving the Depression with novelty furniture
Playing on consumer desire to make small home improvements during the Great Depression, the furniture industry came up with a new product line: novelty furniture. Read More +
Furniture Repair: Freeing a stuck tambour requires patience and perseverance
Turn of the century furniture construction techniques, while often clever, were not extremely sophisticated, making furniture repair easier than you might think. Read More +
Furniture Detective: Watching out for cheap tricks, fake finishes
Furniture refinishes have the potential to be considered cosmetic charades that are artful and ingenious while some have been heavy handed and obvious, and here Furniture Detective Fred Taylor offers valuable insight to help you spot the difference. Read More +
Reading the Evidence: The Furniture Gives Up the Truth
The life story of an antique — where it’s been, who owned it and how it came to be where it is — is known as its provenance. Furniture Detective Fred Taylor discusses the importance of heeding an antiques hints about its true history. Read More +
Advances in technology give way to new class of functional furniture
Just because it’s functional doesn’t mean furniture doesn’t have a stylish design and social purpose, in fact examples of this practice can be seen throughout the 20th century. Read More +
Learning ‘ground truth’ requires experiencing furniture first hand
Finding the truth about older and antique furniture requires getting down to the basics, seeing and experiencing each piece in its environment. Furniture Detective Fred Taylor explains how Read More +
Creative carvings from Chicago bolsters upholstered Depression-Era furniture
Furniture Detective Fred Taylor is stripping away the misconceptions that the only great furniture coming out of the Midwest was from Michigan and Ohio — revealing Chicago as a center of fine furniture making, too. Read More +
Wicker Furniture: A process – not a material
Furniture Detective Fred Taylor did some wicker investigation recently, and now he addresses the most common misconception surrounding wicker. Find out what it is. Read More +
Furniture Detective: If repair advice stinks, results will, too
Even when advice is easy to come by, it’s not always the best. Which is why Furniture Detective Fred Taylor, in his most recent column, offers valuable insight on how to spot good advice. Read More +