Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 23
e became exaggerated as timewent on until when the end came, balance was manytimes entirely eschewed, the two sides of a mirror say,being unlike. Figure 6 shows a chair designed in pure style be-fore the curved leg became a feature. As time wenton, sprawling legs called cancan, after the vile… … Fig. 12 of this maker, a great deal of it went to furnish thenew royal chateau at Versailles the inventor after-wards becoming the head of the royal furniture mak-ing department. As to the boulework, its peculiarquality is in the marquetry, the surface embellishment.It is composed of tortoise shell…
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