Chippendale Furniture

Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) is the most influential English Georgian cabinet-maker and designer. His pattern book of 1754, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director was widely distributed and inspired many of his contemporaries. Early Chippendale furniture encapsulates the British response to the rococo style as seen in the furniture he supplied to Dumfries House and his later work reflects the more Neoclassical taste of his patrons at Nostell Priory and Harewood House. Other notable Georgian cabinet-makers in the Chippendale period are Wright and Elwick and Mayhew and Ince.