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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 442

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for more than twenty years. Hairwood and amboyna were also adapted from the Gallic modes,and applied in veneers over cheaper and more easily worked woods,that the piece of furniture might appear to have been constructed ofthe more richly figured wood.Shortly before the end of thecentury rosewood,… … 338 UKcouA I IN i: I I HNniiJi: niunini^ in tlics direction of its lin-adlh, Slieralononiploycd all t,li(i woods wliicli H(*j)j)(r]w}iit«; us<;dfor iiilay.s, and added niaho;/any and e}>ony. ►Sheraton cared little tor walnut ;ia a con-Htructional wood; lie writeH, in 1803: Tin; blackVir«^nnia…

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