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2008-05-06

Tuscan furniture for your home to have a simple and civilized look : Furniture store

Tuscan furniture for your home to have a simple and civilized look
by Adam Peters
plug itThis article tells us about the Tuscan theme for furniture, its evolution and different patterns or colors used in this theme and further can be used to give an elegant appeal to your room.
Tuscany is always mistaken by public to be French for some reason rather it is Italian. As the theme of Tuscan means furniture and its very uniquely and clearly Italian.

The theme of furniture is a broadly based one and it depends on the style and architecture of a region called Tuscany of Italy. This place which is in the Northern part of Italy surrounds the town Florence and is well known as very simple and rural region and also as a home for great art of renaissance period. This theme of furniture depicts this duality in which it mostly consists of some simple folk parts mixed with items painted by hand and also a traditional veneer with a very graceful look to the theme.

The basic or primary material for the Tuscan furniture theme is wood and others like chestnut, cypress, fir and poplar being general choices. This theme also uses a bit of iron, leather and metal having worked into the patterns or designs. In this respect, Most of the times, it resembles to the Spanish theme of furniture. Thick red and cool blue are the most commonly used colors. These colors depict the combination of both classy and rusty look which is the feature of the theme.

Many design come with straight lines which is common in a traditional Roman and Italian architecture. There is a vast difference from the ornate or showy theme that had marked the theme of renaissance although both existed together in the area for hundreds of years. If a glance at a piece gives you a civilizing and simple feeling, then what you are looking at is a piece of Tuscan.

Florence city, which is in the center of the Tuscan area, is known as home for several of the best arts available in the world. Furniture shaped at this region is however called a Tuscan theme; extensive creations are found at Florence. These are very expensive; however have the basic styling and lines. Rustic style of theme is mostly seen on the Country side of Tuscan. The pieces are very simple in terms of its design, but they also hold the theme’s unique marks.

Migrating in mass by Italians to America has got the Tuscan furniture them around the start of 20th century. This theme signified the knowledge they had for their complete life and this was long before the main Tuscan furniture theme was manufactured in the US. Areas with good number of Italian people still have this theme as one of the popular ones. The traditional or the older look and also the charm of this theme have made it a famous choice for decoration not only for a single room but for the complete home. Market is always flourishing for reproducing the pieces of Tuscan. Tuscan pieces are made available by the growth in the international market by having them produced through the descendents of the real craftsman present worldwide.

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