The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 171
detail and projKjrtionwith contemporary English cabinetwork practice.One finds distinct confirmation of this sup-position in Robert Adams remark relative tothe harpsichord he designed for the Empressof Russia,—an order he owed, possibly, to hisfriend and fellow-traveller, Clerisseau, who… … CHIMNEYPIECE DESIGNEDBY THE BROTHERS ADAM.From Drawing in SOANEMUSEUM. THE CHIMNEYPIECE, now yielded finally to a striving after domesticity and elegance.The large looking-glass craze, which set in during the eighteenthcentury, was responsible also for the destruction of the upper partof many a…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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