BBC Countryfile - Chippendale

[Phil Pascoe]

8/10 (today) at about 6.15pm. A nice bit of Chippendale at Dumfries House. I wonder how much it would cost to have made now? I bet you wouldn't get it made for eight and a half grand, which it works out at on an inflation calculator.

 

[Harbo]

It would not be made now because it’s out of fashion.
Most of his furniture was made to suit Grand Houses and often he never got full payment.

Rod

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I appreciate that it wouldn't be made - I was thinking hypothetically- how much would you pay for a piece of furniture with that amount of material and work in it?

 

[worn thumbs]

I wouldn't buy it.As much as I admire the skill of the makers,I find the style so elaborate that the amount of work involved in creating it borders on offensive to me.I much prefer the simpler aesthetics of the Shaker style for instance or Scandinavian designs from the last sixty or so years.

 

[Harbo]

But at that time it was fashionable and could only be afforded by the very rich.
There was a series on ITV awhile back where they analysed some stately homes construction and costs from their inventories and then related to modern values - quite astronomical.
They also detailed the furniture and decorations.

Sadly most of the monies which funded this work came from the slave trade/Sugar Plantations.

Rod

 

[hawkeyefxr]

What about what it was worth !! 26 million !

 

[Phil Pascoe]

They estimated that - quite often things go for twice the estimates.

 

[whiskywill]

They estimated that - quite often things go for twice the estimates.

Just like on programmes like Flog It. The "expert" might estimate something as worth "50 to 80 pounds". The when it sells for £50 they claim it has sold for exactly the estimate. Why hasn't it sold for £30 under the estimate?