Resources

Resources included on this page are designed to help you know more about the history of furniture styles, living with antiques as well as buying them and caring for them.

If you would like to know more about the stylistic origins of this collection, click here.

For information on Vassar College and its role in the development of M. Markley Antiques, click here.

For information on the origins of specific types of furniture, click on:  chests, cabinets, tables/desks, armoires, chairs/seating, and fireplaces.

To learn more about condition when buying antiques, click here.

For a complete Bibliography of the references cited in this website, click here.

If you are looking for information in English, please visit our page devoted to the Victoria & Albert Museum, including books by Christopher Wilk, the Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, click here.

For information on caring for antiques after you have purchased them, click here.

For information on the special attention given to chairs in the collection, click here.

If you would like to know more about living with antiques, click here to view an article from Martha Turner Properties.  

If you would like to download the Markley Guide to Paris, click here.

If you would like LINKS to websites for travel to France and buying antiques, click here.