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Anthony Warwick antique restorer and cabinet makers are situated in the English countryside on the border of Colchester. Anthony Warwick has built up a very satisfying reputation over the years, as a business that manufacture bespoke furniture of exceptional excellence. Our family go back over four generations, right back to the late 1800s, when Mr. David Savill was the proprietor of the Antique Shop in Billericay, Essex. Every item of furniture that we manufacture is personally fashioned by our specialist cabinet makers, whom all have years of experience. Here at Anthony Warwick we aspire to produce bespoke furniture and cabinets that are as unique as you, so that you can cherish it for years to come. We model our stock on hand crafted furniture from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, implementing the Georgian era of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton.

Chippendale Furniture was created by Thomas Chippendale from London; he was a cabinet-maker and furniture designer in mid Georgian times. Chippendale was much more than just a cabinetmaker, he was a designer who recommended which soft furnishings people should acquire for their homes, he even advised them what colour a room should be painted. Chippendale started his career in partnership with an upholsterer called James Rannie but later entered in to another partnership with Rannie’s assistant, Thomas Haig, however, all artistic influence of the magnificent furniture that materialized from his work shop in St. Martin’s Lane was securely in the hands of Chippendale.

Hepplewhite came from George Hepplewhite. None of Hepplewhite’s furniture is known to be in existence but his name remains on a distinguishing style of light, graceful furniture which would have been in fashion roughly between 1775 and 1800. Replications of his work carried on throughout the centuries. One attribute that is present in a lot of his bespoke furniture, but not all, is a shield shaped chair back, where you can see a magnanimous shield manifests instead of a more tapered splat design

Finally, the Sheraton range comes from Thomas Sheraton who was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1751. Sheraton’s style was enthused by the Louis XVI features & styles around narrowed legs, fluting and most distinctive, complimenting veneer strips. Sheraton furniture takes a light weighted rectilinear appearance, it uses satinwood, mahogany & tulipwood, sycamore and rosewood for inlaid fancies. Other traits to be found are painted finishes and brass fittings. The most familiar ornamentations to be found on the Sheraton range are Swags, husks, flutings, festoons, and rams’ heads.

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