Don MacInnes Antiques

Don has been furnishing New Zealand homes with the finest antique furniture for the last 25 years from various retail premises around Wellington.

Now located in the sunny Horowhenua, proprietor Don MacInnes continues to provide exclusive Georgian, Regency and Victorian furniture to discerning buyers. As he specialises in antique furniture only, Don is uniquely placed to source and sell only the finest.

We carry a changing range of mainly Georgian, Regency and Victorian English furniture spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. We also have a small selection of Edwardian quality items from time to time.

If you still can't find the item you're looking for, why not email us with details. We are constantly sourcing quality antique furniture.

PERIODS
The Georgian era is normally defined to include the reigns of kings George I, George II, George III and George IV. This covers the period from 1714 to 1830, (with the sub-period of the Regency, defined by the Regency of George IV as Prince of Wales during the illness of his father George III).

The term Regency period refers to the years between 1811 and 1820 when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV, was instated as his proxy. The term is also often applied to the years between 1795 and 1830, a time characterised by distinctive fashions, politics and culture. It was a period of excessiveness for the aristocracy.

The "Regency" can be considered to be a transitional period between "Georgian" and "Victorian". In this sense the term refers to the entire period from approximately 1811 until the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, encompassing the actual period of Regency, along with George IV's reign in his own right and that of his brother William IV.

Victorian is a term used to describe the period from about 1837 to 1901. Victorian architecture is characterised by extensive borrowing from and reworking of classical and particularly Gothic styles.