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    Aesthetics and AV equipment

    This is my one at home in the bedroom: Paul Hardy
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    Antique English? Breakfront

    I would think it very unlikely that the cornice and base would originally been made from a different timber that the doors and panels. If the unfinished interior surfaces look antique, it's possible that the oak parts and pine carcass were built-in either as a shop fitting or library, and then...
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    ?

    Picture framers usually stock them
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    Absurd art world

    It was only preserved in alcohol to get it home. He was entombed in St Paul's Cathedral on 21st October 1805. http://www.twogreens.co.uk/wakeup/nelson/body_back.htm
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    Absurd art world

    Selling through an auction house doesn't let you escape commission charges. Normally both the buyer and seller are charged commission. S******'s, for example, charge 25% to the buyer for lesser items, and between 5% - 15% to the seller. Hirst has just exchanged one intermediary for another...
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    Have a look at this beauty

    Original concept dates from 1835 when John Johnstone and Robert Jupe patented the design. The huge improvement of the modern design is that the infill leaves automatically insert themselves and are stored internally. The antique version needed the leaves to be put in manually and they were...
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    Airbrushing advice

    We run a small hobby type airbrush off our large compressor, but you need a regulator to drop the pressure down, and you need various fittings to get the tube diameter down as well. Paul Hardy
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    trouble with cabinet design

    Maplin also sell a remarkable wireless remote control widget that takes the form of a subtitute AA size battery. It somehow senses what the IR hanset you put it into is transmitting and converts it into a radio signal that communicates with a receiver inside the cabinet. The receiver then...
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    Design history - can you help?

    Hi Dave Thanks for the welcome. Getting your post caught in a spam trap can be a painful thing. Paul
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    Design history - can you help?

    Allan, Have you looked at the publications of The Furniture History Society? http://www.furniturehistorysociety.org/publications.htm or The Regional Furniture Society? http://www.regionalfurnituresociety.com ... urnals.htm Regards Paul Hardy
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