Strachan Antiques

40 Darnley Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow

G41 2SE. Scotland

Telephone :: +44 (0) 141 429 4411

Email :: sales@strachanantiques.co.uk

Proprietors :: Alex Strachan & Saranne Jenkins

Open 7 days including Bank Holidays

Monday - Friday 10 - 6    Saturday 10 - 5     Sunday 12 - 5

Largest antiques dealer in Scotland specialising in Arts & Crafts furniture and Art Nouveau furniture

Bedroom furniture :: Bookcases :: Cabinets :: Chairs :: Chests :: Clocks :: Desks & Bureaux :: Dining Tables

Light Fittings :: Mirrors :: Occasional Furniture :: Sideboards & Dressers :: Metalware

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Last updated on Saturday 6th February

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NEW STOCK ARRIVING SOON

Over the next few weeks lots of exciting new pieces will be delivered to our Glasgow showroom. We will be adding them to this website frequently.

Please check back.

New Stock Wednesday 3rd February

Oak wardobe, oak sideboard base, oak sideboard base, oak bureau.

'Frequently Asked Questions' page

Answers to the questions we are most frequently asked

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Delivery

We can arrange door to door delivery, please ask for a quote

Photos of our retail showroom

Some pictures of our shop

Not all of our stock is currently online

We have a lot of (mainly) larger items in storage waiting to be restored. If you are looking for something in particular please contact us and we will do our best to help.

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About Us

Strachan Antiques is a family business, founded in 1989.

We have a very large, ever-changing stock of oak, mahogany, walnut and ash Arts & Crafts furniture and other artefacts by famous names such as Liberty of London, Harris Lebus, Shapland & Petter, Heals and Glasgow's own Wylie & Lochhead.

Our retail showroom is minutes from Glasgow City Centre and the M8.  We have ample customer parking.

Most of our Arts & Crafts furniture dates from about 1890 –1915.

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Arts & Crafts

The Arts & Crafts movement began in the mid 19th century with William Morris and Pugin.

The ethos of the movement was of handcrafted pieces made by traditional craftsmen: there should be no unnecessary ornament and everything should be of practical use as well as pleasing to the eye. Unfortunately to make items in this way was very expensive, compared with the machine made pieces of the new industrial age, so it proved impractical. However other furniture manufacturers caught on to the simple lines of the new Arts & Crafts style and it became very popular right into the 20th century.

Art Nouveau
This was the title given to the new style adopted in France as a reaction against the heavy over-decorated furniture of earlier in the 19th century. It began about 1880 and became all the rage. The whiplash curves of its organic decorations caused a sensation and were condemned by some as being decadent. The Art Nouveau movement was known in Spain as “Modernism”, in Germany as "Jugendstil", in Italy "Stile Liberty” and in eastern Europe as “Secessionist” – although this latter style was far more rectilinear than in other countries. Except in Glasgow – where C.R.Mackintosh and his contemporaries developed a singular style based on a combination of straight lines and curves now known as “Glasgow-Style”.

 

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Strachan Antiques :: 40 Darnley Street :: Pollokshields :: Glasgow :: Lanarkshire :: Scotland :: G41 2SE

Scotland's largest specialist dealer in Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau furniture Harris Lebus Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland, Shapland & Petter Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland, Wylie & Lochhead Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland, Liberty & Co. Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland, Heals Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland, Shapland & Petter Oak Arts & Crafts furniture Glasgow Scotland.