George Hepplewhite George Hepplewhite George Hepplewhite (1727? – 21 June 1786) was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale. There are no pieces of furniture made by Hepplewhite or his firm known to exist but he gave his name to a distinctive style of light, elegant furniture that was fashionable between about 1775 and 1800 and reproductions of his designs continued through the following centuries. One characteristic that is seen in many of his designs is a shield-shaped chair back, where an
William Chippendale William Chippendale William Chippendale (1730s-1802) was an English merchant who was active in Copenhagen from the late 1750s through the mid-1780s. His frim traded on the Danish West Indies. He owned the Andreas Bjørn House at Strandgade 46 in Copenhagen from 1766 and established the sugar refinery Union House on the property in collaboration with a group of planters from St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. Chippendale was born in England, possibly Yorkshire. in the 1830s. He came to Copenhagen in the late 1850s where he purchased a no longer existing property in Overgaden oven Vandet 54 in Christianshavn