the early 18th century, the Bureau has developed even further by incorporating doors-mirrors, often dome in the cabinet above the written component. The mirror reflects light onto the writing surface so that it serves some practical as well as decorative.
chairs were also changing; squarish shapes of the previous century, they were becoming rather a more curved and rounded. The senior back was molded, in what was a vertical piece shaped (flop), and the seats are padded and framed. The legs were delicate curve or S-shaped (known as Cabriole).
Even fashion in materials is changing with mahogany imported from the English colony of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean Walnut replacing the wood of choice.
The mid-18th century saw the French rococo style exerting its influence on English furniture. Rococo was lighter and more elegant than the previous French Baroque style and incorporated as decorative forms as shells, flowers, foliage and scrolls. In addition, the styles of the Far East, after scoring a bit in popularity at the beginning of the century is back in fashion. The furnishings are beginning to bear designs such as pagodas and birds, originally only seen on items of china.
New in the design department was also the tripod table with circular top, to serve tea. Usually folded up for easy storage when not in use and was often highly decorated, shaped and carved with elegant cabriole legs.
In addition, a circular center tables were introduced. They were more durable than those that the folding top, sometimes with a triangular base, more or less solid in the central pillar with a scoop of lion's paw or foot at each corner. This could be supplemented with marble, a fashion imported from Italy, even with a health or similar porphyry surrounded by specimens of beads around the outside. The different colors of marbles have a nice decorative effect, without being too picky.
In 1770 the rococo period in England was coming to an end, replaced by neoclassical style, which designs reintroduced from Greek and Roman antiquity, like garlands, urns and model key Greek. This style was simpler in form than previously, with the cabriole leg gradually disappeared and replaced with fluted tapering legs or. The sculpture was less common as a form of decoration but the surface of the item received much attention, with veneers flowers in the foreground.
After the success of the tripod table, the last part of the 18th century saw the advent of the dining table and buffet . Buffets were often bow-fronted, containing drawers and tables were mostly of the variety pedestal, with several sections being slotted together. Each section has its base with three legs apart, sometimes after brass casters. During this period, satiwood became increasingly popular, although the mahogany was still widely in use.
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