Blog Profile: Yummy Furniture and Design

Yummy Furniture and Design is the name of both Theresa Haffner-Stearns' interior design firm and her blog, where she is currently documenting a Chippendale-style ribbon back armchair discovered in Ft. Atkinson, WI. The chair is part of her personal collection of antique furniture, of which an Empire piece was selected for appraisal by Antiques Road Show.  She incorporates a lot of information about the history of the Chippendale style and its features, but she also includes many images, which is always a plus for blog readers.  Her images include not only photographs but drawings that she has made of the chair, as well as images from Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director.

 

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Haffner-Stearns is a lover of residential interior design and a life-long student of material culture.  A Philadelphia native and Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers, she received her BS in Design Studies from the UW- Madison in 2008, being awarded two scholarships, receiving academic honors and interning at the Mt. Horeb Historical society. She remains an active member of the Material Culture Focus Group at the University.

As a successful entrepreneur in the greater Philadelphia area she owned and operated two antique stores and a restoration/design studio to the trade and public. Since relocating to Wisconsin in 2000, she has also been the design and operations manager at a fine furniture and bedding start-up, designing numerous pieces of furniture and coordinating accessory lines.  Her design specialty is upholstery restoration.