The cabinet maker : a practical guide to the principles of design, and the economical and sound construction of household furniture, furnishings, and fittings : together with treatises on the designing and setting out of mouldings, and of ornamental or cut-wood work (1892)
London : Ward, Lock, Bowden · leaf 102
87 THE CABINET MAKER. but so made that repose is impossible ; easy chairs which are the reverse of being easy, so uneasy is it to sit m them ; and so on through a list of articles which could be made a somewhat long, as it would be a suggestive, one. It is an essential part of true design for the… … to receive — the convenience or the comfort which they are supposed to be able to supply and to maintain. If this looking forward to the future life, so to call it, of articles of furnituie, the prescience of and providing for contingencies, were followed up by cabinet makers generally, we should…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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