Sheraton Demi-lune Tables

Fine pair of Sheraton mahogany Demi lune console tables circa 1800 . The tables are constructed of solid mahogany through out . They stand on very elegant line inlaid tapered legs wi...

Fine quality late 19th century mahogany Demi lune console table . The table has a wonderful flame mahogany top with satin wood banding and line inlay. The tapered legs have inlay...

A very beautiful and elegant Georgian Sheraton Period, fold over Demi-Lune card or games table in Satinwood, Circa 1790. This is a semi circular (demi-lune) fold over table...

1990s half round Sheraton style console table. Made from olive ash burl and mahogany with satinwood inlay. Supported by square tapered le...

A late 19th century Sheraton style pair of mahogany demilune console tables of unusual large proportions supported on tapering legs. The large size and unique pattern makes these ult...

Antique English Sheraton/federal pinwheel inlaid flip-top game table in mahogany and rosewood. Item features wood construction, beautiful mahogany and rosewood veneer, center pinwhee...

A good quality pair of Edwardian period Sheraton Revival satinwood console tables, each having classical painted decoration and raised on sq...

Marvelous 18th century English Sheraton mahogany console with Carrara marble top inlaid with soapstone. Having delicate ebony inlays across apron and legs, impressively inlaid marble...

A pair of fruitwood bombe-form bedside tables, on Sheraton legs, the front with three drawers each with a circular metal pull. The top with a pierced metal gallery, surrounding a gre...

A good quality pair of Sheraton Revival satinwood demilune console tables with classical painted decoration to the top and frieze raised on square tapering legs and united by a shelf...

A fine late 18th early 19th century Sheraton style dining table. The pair of demi lune drop leaf ends ( 24 and 25") can be used as either a...

This extraordinary pair of demi-lune, or half-moon, side tables is exactly the kind of furniture to which Thomas Sheraton devoted his career. The surfaces of these tables are beautifully detailed with walnut and satinwood marquetry, inlaid with a floral geometric design and radial veneered semi-circle executed with the greatest precision and craftsmanship. Each is set upon elegant, foliate carved giltwood legs. Sheraton believed that furniture should only be created to be fashionable, but it should be designed with more permanent scientific and geometrical principles in mind in order to impart a more lasting quality. This superb pair of tables is a fine example of the principles set forth by this incredible designer. Circa 1780 38” wide x 18” deep x 31” high Thomas Sheraton was born in 1751 in Stockton-on-Tees, England, and though very little is known of his early life, it has been deduced that his was a poor upbringing. He moved to London in 1790 where he supported a wife and two children. For a man whose name is synonymous with the finest furniture of the late 18th-century, he did not support his family as a cabinetmaker. Though he is often credited with introducing the "Sheraton" style of furniture, Thomas Sheraton only worked as a cabinetmaker for a very short time. Though he was well versed in the techniques of cabinetmaking and may have even been trained as such, Sheraton devoted most of his time to the innovation of furniture design and, after 1793, indicated his profession as a teacher of perspective, architecture and cabinetmaking. For the most part, he was a designer of furniture and it was his immensely popular pattern book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791) that influenced an entire generation of English cabinetmaking. Even with that in mind, Sheraton's primary source of income came from his writings on various subjects, his favorites being furniture design and theology. He spent quite a bit of time, in fact, traveling as a Baptist preacher. Sheraton would continue to write two more important books on furniture design, The Cabinet Directory (1803) and a second and third addition of the Drawing Book (1794 and 1802). Unlike his contemporaries, Chippendale and Hepplewhite, who were practical craftsmen, Thomas Sheraton was more a man of ideas, a visionary of how furniture styles should evolve. These more scholarly pursuits, however, left him in poverty later in life, while those who had a better head for business would go on to profit from his designs. Today, Thomas Sheraton is considered among the greatest furniture designers in history and his influence over the past 200 years has been far reaching. References: The Sheraton Director, The Furniture Designs of Thomas Sheraton, 1990, J. Munro Bell Sheraton Furniture, 1962, Ralph Fastnedge Discovering Antiques...