The Renaissance revived ideas and achievements of classical antiquity and influenced architecture and interior design that we still live with.

Georgian houses in the UK and Greek Revival houses in North America were two outcomes where form and proportions were central features. No furniture survived from classical times, but cabinet makers ever since the Enlightenment have attempted recreations by deduction from painted pottery and stone carvings that did survive the ages. Such furniture was initially confined to the very wealthy and each generation of cabinet makers did so in conformity with the furnishing tastes of their own times. In modern day Greece from the mid-20^th century, with the ascent of shipping tycoons, Athens became a centre for the manufacture of this iconic and specialised range in a more restrained style, without the more gilded aspects of specimens made in other European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, most of those workshops and their ageing artisans fell victim to the great 2008-11 financial crash. We at the Ancient Greek Furniture Company, with a base in Athens, intend to keep alive this line of furniture and make it as close as it was to those Greece based designs. Real examples of the specimens featured below can be viewed by appointment in London.