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The William and Mary Furniture Period, a transition

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

1690 – 1725, the William and Mary furniture period By the latter part of the 1600s changes were taking place across Europe which resulted in the Anglicization of Eastern North America. By the time Charles II came to the throne in 1660 many new design ideas were brought to England from the continent. While in [...]