Spanish or Mexican furniture?Why is all this relevant to the presence of Mexican furniture and Mexican CD and DVD storage in particular in Britain today? Well firstly it establishes the connection between Spanish and Mexican furniture styles and secondly the French influence may explain the fashion for Mexican furniture to have been painted. But surely, Mexican furniture is not painted? This may be true today, but an American researcher suggests this might have come about due more to a misunderstanding than anything else. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was fashionable in Europe for furniture to be painted and not just in white, but in a host of different colours including reds and blues. The American research shows this style was also common in Mexico. So Mexican CD and DVD storage at this time might could have appeared in white, red, or even blue colour finishes. However, it would appear that as this painted furniture grew old and was replaced, many householders simply put it in any convenient place outside. This discarded furniture would have been preserved in the dry Mexican climate but the combined effects of sun and wind would have sandblasted off old paintwork and bleached the timbers. Consequently by the 1950s when American tourists began travelling Mexico they discovered this distressed, bare wood furniture and, taking it to be ‘traditional’ Mexican furniture bought it from locals to furnish their own homes in the USA. According to the researchers, this is how the myth was created that Mexican furniture was typically rustic and had a rough, bleached appearance.This is an effective explanation of the Mexican CD + DVD storage’s arrival in the United States of America but it still does not explain its popularity in the UK. External influences on Britain’s furniture styles came, logically, from its European neighbours and its own colonies, dependencies’, protectorates and so forth. While this would explain African or Indian influences, Britain had almost no interests in or near Mexico (except for the Bahamas, British Honduras, British Guiana and the West Indies)
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