Heywood Wakefield Modern Furniture Identification And Value Guide

Dining tables sofa tables desks storage cabinets tea carts chairs dressers and many other styles and forms of heywood wakefield furniture command very high prices on the vintage furniture and.

Heywood wakefield modern furniture identification and value guide.

Are old blurry catalogue pictures instead of color photos with high clarity but this is also why they can pack so many identification photos into this book. What comes to mind for most of us are the modern pieces produced by the company from roughly the 1930s to the early 1960s. Both companies produced rattan and wicker furniture that became very popular during the last quarter of the 19th century as outdoor and conservatory furnishings. The writing and history inside are very entertaining and informative.

In 1937 streamline maple became streamline modern. Around this same time heywood wakefield began using phillips head screws almost. If you can identify types of wood by its color and grain pattern this is another clue. It s an important work for highlighting heywood wakefield s prominent position in mid century modern furniture history.

Identification and value guide this classic by steven and roger rouland often just referred to as the rouland book was published by collector books in 1994. Maple was still used for some furniture but by 1940 heywood wakefield switched exclusively to birch. Unlike duncan phyfe furniture or eastlake furniture styles which have their own collecting following in the antiques market heywood wakefield furniture from the circa 1930s to the 1970s is popular and valuable with today s collectors of modern and mid century modern furniture internationally. Their main rival the wakefield rattan company began operations in 1855.

These are the light blond pieces that are still so recognizable today.