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I read a book about chairs a few months ago, and one bit from it is > Eighteenth-century furniture was expensive. At a time when a journeyman joiner earned th
by mycologos 3y ago
I read a book about chairs a few months ago, and one bit from it is
> Eighteenth-century furniture was expensive. At a time when a journeyman joiner earned three livres a day, a good-quality armchair might cost as much as a hundred livres.
- bombcar 3y agoThat's only 30 days work, which is in the $3-10k range. And for that you CAN get good furniture; the trick is figuring out you're paying for the quality and not just overpaying for junk.
- drchickensalad 3y agoYeah wow that's like $8k+ for an armchair in today's wages (including the historically inaccurate assumption they only work 8 hours too)