Furniture designing and draughting, notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture (1914)
Nye, Alvan Crocker · New York, The William T. Comstock co · leaf 94
een the scroll and top rail with a smallacanthus. This gives the increased material without injuring theappearance, and is a rational method of using carved ornament. Applique of metal work is a form of relief ornamentation, in manyrespects closely related to carving. It may be either cast or… … METAL APPLIQUE. 91 ornament is applied in places where carving might have been used,and it is properly joined with the lines of the article so as to becomea part of them. In the Louis XVI., to some degree, and in theEmpire style almost entirely, the applique ornaments are fasteneddirectly on a…
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