Restoration - Before and After

Wallrocks travel personally around the world, two to three times a year and hand pick original, authentic 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century antiques. As many would know, for the unskilled buyer this task is laden with risk, particularly today when reproductions and fakes are being manufactured on such a large scale. You really do need to know what you're looking for in order to avoid making a potentially expensive mistake.

Just as the economic and military situations influence and to a large extent dictate the way of life in most countries today, so they did in past centuries. The French Napoleonic era, (best known as the French Empire), and the English Regency period both spanned the first quarter of the 19th century. The approaches to the English channel, have always been strategically important to France, England and Spain, as they that control the channel, control the ports. The blockade during this time, resulted in a complete in the style and fashions of the furniture.  Continue reading...