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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 267

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notice, being genuine old English work, andgood of its kind. Many of the Dutch and Flemishcabinets of the same period are most elaborately andexquisitely carved. 246 BEAUTY AND SURROUNDINGS. I have sketched, moreover, a modern chair, theupholsterers favourite form, as an instance of thoroughlybad… … Fig. 86.—The upholsterers daning. Louis XIV. and other furniture of good design iscreeping into use again. Some of the forms are ex-tremely simple, yet refined—though not particularlycomfortable. But why cannot pure form be combinedwith spring-seats ? And now one word about choosing materials for…

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