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Eastlake|ˈiːstleɪk|
The name of Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906), English designer, used attrib. and ellipt. to denote furniture associated with his book Hints on Household Taste (see quot. 1878).
1878C. L. Eastlake Hints on Household Taste in Furniture (ed. 4) p. viii, I find American tradesmen continually advertising what they are pleased to call ‘Eastlake’ furniture, with the production of which I have had nothing whatever to do, and for the taste of which I should be very sorry to be considered responsible. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork iii. 141 There is lovely Queen Anne furniture, successor to the more ponderous ‘Eastlake’. 1967Boston (Mass.) Sunday Herald 9 Apr. (Show Guide) 15/1 Eastlake furniture..was and still is second-rate—a mixture of shoddy workmanship, and a debased Gothic style which was not true to Charles L. Eastlake's ideas. |