Elements of style in furniture and woodwork, being a series of details of the Italian, German Renaissance, Elizabethan, Louis XIVth, Louis XVth, Louis XVIth, Sheraton, Adams, Empire, Chinese, Japanese, and Moresque styles ... for the use of architects, furniture designers, cabinet makers and others (1889)
Brook, Robert · London, The author · leaf 7
ofessions. As Owen Jones truly remarks in his prefaceto the Grammar of Ornament, To attempt to build up theories of Art or to forma style independently of the past, would be an act of supreme folly. It would beat once to reject the accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. At the sametime we…
Woodwork · Furniture
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
