Driscolls Antiques

Hepplewhite and Sheraton Antique Furniture designs
The Antique furniture designer and maker George Hepplewhite trained in Lancaster and he worked in London from about 1760 and died in 1786. Two years after his death his widow published his Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide which had 300 illustrations showing his very fashionable designs of antique furniture. The [...]

Thomas Chippendale the antique furniture cabinet maker
Thomas Chippendale is a joiners son from Otley in Yorkshire which is very close to where we are based in clithereoe, Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) moved to London when he was around 20 years old and he set up a workshop near Covent Garden market and this is where he [...]

Victorian Cabinet Makers of Antique Bedroom Suites
No Victorian bedroom belonging to the middle class people was complete without its antique bedroom suite. By the late 19th century all the large antique furniture manufacturers were producing matching bedroom furniture, usually bearing the maker’s stamp or label.
The well known company names include Gillows of Lancaster, most [...]

antique table from a Pembroke table to a sofa table
The antique pembroke table, is the forebear of the sofa table, was introduced in the mid 1700s and it was named after the Countess of Pembroke, who ordered the very first one. Pembroke Tables have rectangular, circular serpentine or oval tops, with flaps supported on small [...]

The antique furniture maker William and Thomas Wilkinson operated a cabinet making business at Brokers Row, Moorfields between 1790-1807, after which William left to take over the established business of Quentin Kaye at 14 Ludgate Hill. William was an upholsterer and cabinet maker. He made very fashionable beautiful regency furniture and also did some patented [...]

Howard and Sons Chairs
Howard and Sons of London were one of the best upholstery makers of the Victorian era. They were as well known as the antique furniture makers Gillows for the quality and styles of furniture, in fact Howard and Sons worked together with Gillows on several occasions and it is said that they [...]

Antique furniture by the furniture makers John McLean & Sons
John McLean & Sons were a leading antique furniture cabinet makers from the regency period , who operated from premises in Tottenham Court Road and later in Upper Marylebone Street London. McLean was listed as a subscriber to Thomas Sheraton’s Cabinet Dictionary and from this book [...]

The Antique Furniture Makers John Cobb (1715-1778). John Cobb worked in premises on Martins Lane, London. He completed his apprenticeship in 1736 and went into a partnership with William Vile in 1751 and then took over the firm upon Vile’s retirement in 1764. By this time John Cobb himself was mainly involved in the design [...]

The antique furniture made by the firm called Seddon (1753–1868) was the largest furniture making firm in London in the last quarter of the 18th century, yet not many items were labelled or documented so it is difficult to identify a piece by this maker. Seddon was constantly devising new forms of furniture and were [...]

Edwards and Roberts Antique Furniture
The firm Edwards and Roberts were among the best english antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the 1800s. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as 'Edwards and Roberts', 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture'. They became [...]