What was the furniture like in 1913?

Answer 1

Answering I collect 1904 World's Fair memorabilia/antiques-and everything at the Fair was amazingly ornate and intricately designed. Lots of flowers, filigree on everything and the need to allow the viewer of the piece of art (whatever it might have been-glassware, postcards, pictures, mugs, etc.) to be able to view the item in "3-D" or in another form of lighting. The Pictograph pictures, certain German beer steins and some other souveniers-had the Daytime/Nighttime lighting effect that you could view- depending on how you held the item up to natural light. Of course all this may seem to have little to do with the furniture of 1913 you say. I believe that the Titanic ship sunk around 1912, so I would say that the furniture was also quite ornate in 1913 as it might have been in 1904-since the ship's items for the most part ranged from rather ordinary to magnificent. I think that the idea must have been to make the homeowner "think" that he was surrounded by luxury-with the small detailing done on most artistic pieces of work at the time. The actual pieces of furniture that you would find in a typical farm home may have been somewhat Victorian in design-again, pointing to lavishly ornate styles but at the same time very practical in materials. For instance: A piece called a Pie Safe was only made of oak and tin probably-but the design on the tin part could have been quite beautiful. If there were any glass windows on the Pie Safe-they could have been etched with lovely flowery edging or similar.