Thomas Sheraton Thomas Sheraton Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles and became the most powerful source of inspiration behind the furniture of the late 18th century. Sheraton was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. He was apprenticed to a local cabinet maker and continued working as a journeyman cabinet maker until he moved to London in 1790, aged 39. There
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