Google Doodle celebrates English furniture designer Thomas Chippendale
18th Century cabinet maker honoured with Doodle
Google Doodle celebrates English furniture designer Thomas Chippendale
Show all 27Google has commemorated the 18th Century English cabinet maker and furniture designer Thomas Chippendale with a Doodle comprised of images of his famous furniture.
Chippendale, who would have celebrated his 295th birthday today, became one of Britain's most celebrated interior designers.
His work, in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles is highly collectible.
In 2010 The Harrington Commode, a chest of drawers thought to be crafted by Thomas Chippendale, was sold at auction for £3.8million.
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The piece of furniture, which dates from around 1770, sold for three times its original estimate.
A previous record for most costly piece of English furniture had also belonged to Chippendale for his George II Parcel-Gilt Padouk Cabinet-on-Stand which sold for £2,729,250 at Christie’s in June 2008.
Born in Farnley near Otley into a family of Yorkshire carpenters he moved to London aged 30 and established a workshop in St Martins lane.
He published a book, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, six years later. He died in London in 1779, aged 61.
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