An Antiquarian's Tale

There were three seminal moments for me in the first year of College that made me see furniture as more than just a sum of its parts. The first was...

The College did not teach a course in furniture styles. If we were interested in style, we needed to go to the library on the sixth floor, across the hall from...

The instructors at the colleges were not expert in everything so outside teachers were brought in, specifically for carving and gilding.

The London College of Furniture is a nondescript seven story white brick building about a quarter mile from the Aldgate East tube station.