Sheraton Furniture

Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806) designed the most elegant furniture of the Georgian period. Sheraton's designs are typified by an emphasis on the vertical lines of a piece of furniture and an increased use of exotic woods from the ever expanding empire such as satinwood, rosewood and purpleheart. His most famous publication was The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791). Other notable cabinet-makers from the Sheraton period are Seddon, Ince and Mayhew and Linnell.