How Antique Oak Furniture Inspired Modern Fantasy Worlds

How Antique Oak Furniture Inspired Modern Fantasy Worlds

Think Tolkien, Game of Thrones and the Great Halls of Legend Picture a great hall in a fantasy kingdom. There is almost certainly a roaring fire, a stone floor, iron candleholders and a vast wooden table scarred by generations of feasts, arguments and political plotting. High-backed chairs stand beneath carved shields, while heavy chests line […]

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Why Some Oak Furniture Was Built to Keep Witches Away

Why Some Oak Furniture Was Built to Keep Witches Away

Pick up a piece of old oak furniture and you’re holding more than timber and joinery. In the 16th and 17th centuries, oak chests, cupboards, bed frames and panelling lived in a world where the supernatural wasn’t a Halloween theme, it was a genuine, everyday anxiety. People worried about witchcraft, ill luck, “evil influences,” and […]

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