Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 72
e features, are grottos,roses, cornucopias, vases with spilling contents, scrolls,weeds, sprawling accanthus, all seemingly thrown to-gether haphazard. Everything evidently was gristthat came to the decorative mill. In some of the decor-ation one is reminded of plant growth of a rank… … Fig. A. shade and shadow, the prominences, brilliant points oflight. Here was multitudinous detail, ridged andbroken outlines in constant succession, the wholeforming an aspect richness of effect. When we cometo the style that prevailed in the latter part of thereign (now known as the rococo) we…
Furniture industry and trade · Woodworking industries
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