Welcome to mallettantiques.com. Mallett’s are specialist international antique dealers in London and New York of high quality antique furniture and fine art. We can export our antique furniture, paintings and objet d’art, worldwide. The furniture section of website concentrates on antique tables, chests and case furniture, chairs and armchairs, antique mirrors and desks from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and has a wide selection of furnishings, suited to the modern taste for exceptional antiques. Please navigate our antique furniture collection by selecting from the dropdown menu or the links below to items from this category.
We have an unrivalled collection of English and Continental antique furniture, which includes walnut furniture such as Queen Anne bachelors chests, kneehole desks and sets of Georgian chairs with fine needlework coverings from as early as 1700. Later George II and George III chests of drawers, case furniture, side tables and occasional tables crafted of the finest mahogany and exotic woods, are exhibited with Regency furniture and Victorian furniture. The history of design and adoption of external influences such as chinoiserie, the rococo, and neo-classicism, are traced throughout the Mallett collections and balanced with the continental furniture collection.
Many of the important and revered English furniture makers and furniture designers of the day are also represented. Important and very rare pieces designed by Thomas Chippendale, John Linnell, John Mclean, Robert Adam, Vile & Cobb, and William Kent, offer some of the most beautifully proportioned English furniture with the finest quality decorations, of inlaid woods, carved mahogany or contrasting woods and grains.
The adoption by English furniture makers of new exotic woods is no more prominently shown than during the late 18th century and the 19th century. Thomas Sheraton in particular used these woods such as satinwood, rosewood, harewood and burr woods to create highly refined neo classical designs which were much lighter in concept than the previous designs of Georgian periods. The 19th century saw these ideas and designs abstracted further, Jackson & Graham and Collinson & Lock, created some of the most elegant 19th century pieces, with exceptional marquetry and play of colours and woods.
Antique giltwood furniture is also represented, some of the most important pieces were decorated with gold leaf, which was burnished and matted to emphasise form and beauty. We have several important 18th century giltwood side tables and consoles, accompanied by an outstanding collection of giltwood mirrors, many with original antique mirror plates. The provenance of many of our pieces is also exceptional, we have pieces from Kedleston Hall, Tabley Hall, Hackwood Park and Harewood House and several pieces are related to furnishings represented in the Royal Collections.
Should you require any further information or wish to purchase any of the English antiques exhibited here then please do not hesitate to contact Mallett. We trust that you will enjoy your visit to Mallett, and we look forward to helping you source the finest antique furniture, decorative and fine arts from the extensive Mallett collections.