Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 430
mplifies a fashion that ob-tained wherein carving was totally eschewed, and splitturnings upon plain surfaces in part furnished thedecoration. Fig. 11 shows a fashion of chair that had somevogue. Sometimes the legs were square and the backas high as the shoulders of the sitter. In ancient… … Fig. 12.—Toilet glass seen in Hardwick Hall, England : An exampleof the light, graceful work of the period. many of Hogarths interior views. By the timeof Queen Anne curves had replaced the straight line,but the overstuffing idea remained. It has been the commonly accepted opinion thatthe recent…
Furniture industry and trade · Woodworking industries
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