Those were the days?

[Student]

If

1. SWMBO drags you down to Knightsbridge for the joys of Harrods/Harvey Nicks etc or you just happen to be in that part of the world, and
2. You have an hour or two to spare, and
3. You haven’t been for some years or not at all

then why not pop into the Victoria and Albert Museum and look at their revamped Furniture Gallery. It displays furniture from early medieval chests and tables to Ikea shelves from the 1960s plus displays explaining how to do inlay work, veneering. boulle work, pietra dura (a form of mosaic on furniture), gilding and upholstery.

The website page below gives more information and links to some videos but, although I found the one on boulle work fascinating, I think the ones on how to do dovetail joints and mortice and tenon joints somewhat, shall I say, basic.

See

http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/f/furniture/

 

[Rob_Mc]

I was in the V&A just before Christmas. Definitely worth a look if you are in the area. Here's a few snaps of some of the modern pieces. Pictures just taken on my phone so you'll have to excuse the quality of photography.

 

[MMUK]

I quite like the 'timber stack' drawers. Apart from the fact that I can see mountains of glue along the hardwood stock that the top drawer's runner is fixed to......