{"id":1597,"date":"2025-11-27T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:01:42","slug":"a-hot-furniture-of-the-regency-by-susan-karsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/27\/a-hot-furniture-of-the-regency-by-susan-karsten\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hot Furniture of the Regency by Susan Karsten"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve read any significant amount in the Regency genre, you\u2019ve come across references to the d\u00e9cor fashion trend involving Egyptian-style furniture. Ever wondered or imagined what it was like?<\/p>

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It\u2019s clear to me why this particular style is not remembered with fondness and it hasn\u2019t swept back around in nostalgic, retro reoccurrences. Regency culture became fascinated with ancient articles upon the publication of Henry Holland\u2019s book \u201cEtchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture\u201d. This ushered in a period of interest in the producing of copies of ancient objects coming from Greece, Rome, and Egypt.<\/p>\n

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When the book, \u201cReproductions of Classical Furniture\u201d by designer Thomas Hope came out in 1807, the Egyptian reproductions using mainly mahogany, but also rosewood and zebrawood, became wildly popular in high echelons of society. The pieces had straight lines, and used symbols as decoration.<\/p>\n

In my home, we enjoy a pretty heirloom chair that once belonged to my husband\u2019s grandmother, who was born in 1903. The chair is old, but not Egyptian. It\u2019s been featured in many humble portraits taken in the Karsten home.<\/p>\n

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It has a problem, however, in that the green velvet-covered, thick-looking seat\u2019s stuffing is completely shot. It\u2019s:<\/p>\n

Lovely to look at,<\/p>\n

Delightful to touch,<\/p>\n

But if you sit,<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find it\u2019s not much.<\/p>\n

I happened upon a recent guest stroking this chair\u2019s highly-polished carved wooden back. The reverent \u00a0look on her face (she didn\u2019t know the seat is corrupt) reminded me of a caution in Matthew 6:19, which says \u201cDo not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.\u201d The Egyptian furniture trend which is long gone and my own pretty chair prove the Truth of the verse all too well.<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2012-10-31 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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If you\u2019ve read any significant amount in the Regency genre, you\u2019ve come across references to the d\u00e9cor fashion trend involving Egyptian-style furniture. Ever wondered or imagined what it was like? It\u2019s clear to me why this particular style is not remembered with fondness and it hasn\u2019t swept back around in nostalgic, retro reoccurrences. Regency culture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-personal-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}