tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730888263639781223.post7466201758996981175..comments2024-03-29T05:16:11.201-04:00Comments on NineteenTeen: Chairs That Go Bump in the Night, Part 2: More Gothic FurnitureMarissa Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11248406475808085694noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730888263639781223.post-82911104498358040712018-12-19T16:39:38.906-05:002018-12-19T16:39:38.906-05:00Thanks very much for the illustrations of Gothic (...Thanks very much for the illustrations of Gothic (or really Gothick) furniture from Ackermann's Repository - I've been trying to find these Repository items for ages, but no luck until I accidentally came on them tonight! I am a total junkie for all Gothic Revival stuff, but my Other Half isn't keen on the Strawberry Hill type - he says they make him think of bad horror films! Did you know these designs were most probably by Charles Pugin, father of the more famous AWN Pugin, who designed the Houses of Parliament in London? Pugin Junior also designed furniture in this style for Windsor Castle at the request of William IV (the Regent's brother, the former Duke of Clarence), but he later disowned all of it when he became more seriously acquainted with real medieval furniture. Sadly, his masterpiece for William IV, the Great Sideboard, was destroyed in the Windsor Castle fire of 1992.AardFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08100339881217961990noreply@blogger.com