A. K. Hoffmeier -- Fine Medium & Common Furniture

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[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

May I steal that icon?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

thank you for asking, yes you may, and I'd appreciate a credit if you add it to your userpics :)

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you! Credited, with the comment that I obtained permission. :)

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's not a kid's bedroom, but all the seating seems remarkably low to the ground. The sofa too. ?

[misstia]

a lot of furniture was lower to the ground then than now....even furniture from the 1950s is lower than today's furniture.....

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

That's certainly true, I've had the privelege of sometimes hanging around fine antiques and people certainly were noticiably smaller in the (I remember being in a museum as a child that was devoted to local Old West history and they had some clothes on dummies on display. I was about 10 and tall but not remarkably so for my age. There was a very fancy officer's Cavalry jacket. While the man certainly had a lot more girth than my girlish self, but I could tell the sleeves would have been too short for me. The ladies dresses were just crazy tiny and I would not have fit in them at all.) past. But even allowing for that, those seem awfully low, the bedroom stuff especially. Makes my knees hurt just thinking about getting up and down and it's not like it's something I usually have trouble with. Seriously, that bedroom looks like it's for a late Victorian hobbit.

[misstia]

a lot of people who buy victorian bedframes have to have them altered to fit modern sized mattresses because they are shorter and narrower.....houses and rooms were also smaller for middle class families than today and furniture was made in many ways more functional at times than today.....

i agree with the small clothes! i've been at the kent state fashion museum and the dresses are TINY.....they had dresses out from the 1600s to the 1970s and you would think we're a giant race or something compared to 400 years ago!!!

[misstia]

beautiful ad!

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

why is he hanging over her shoulder? Is that what they do all day?

[constantinela.livejournal.com]

These vintage ads are always so amusing.