Original British Colonial furniture was a style born of homesickness. Nineteenth Century English settlers in East Africa, Burma, India and Barbados during the expansion of the British Empire found ...

The piece of furniture tucked in a West Ashley storage shed for years might not have attracted much interest had it sat in an antique shop, especially if no one noticed the carving on top. Its finish ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced it will host its annual Working Wood in the 18th Century ...

The late George Crozat spent much of his life preserving colonial Louisiana craftsmanship in a stately column- and gallery-adorned antebellum plantation home along the Mississippi River. Those who ...

Colonial Williamsburg is starting a new archaeology project that hopes to shed light on prolific Scottish cabinetmaker Peter Scott. Archaeologists will soon start excavating a site across from Bruton ...

There is a rich, layered social history to be found in everyday articles­­. If a picture paints a thousand words then a chair, bed or commode tells a microcosmical history. In Furniture of the New ...