Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic (1914)
Otter, Paul D. (Paul Denniston), b. 1866 · New York, Davis Williams company · leaf 44
, thecharm depending solely on the easy line of the end piece andfoot in its relation to thearm. The rare beauty ingood furniture is to cre-ate that smooth round-ness or undulating surfacewhich the worker, an en-thusiast, alone knows hasnot been produced success-fully by mere machinery.It is this… … 41 42 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN personality of the work. This grades it far ahead of the cutand dried mill work, how ever much we may admire themonotonous precision. As the drawing is sufficiently explanatory, little need be saidother than to enlarge it upon the drawing paper. Starting withthe…
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