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 110
95 THE CABINET MAKER. in which surface— not solidity — is the chief characteristic, these being all taken from actual work, as adapted to special purposes, and which the young cabinet maker will be able to apply to the like or to similar purposes, such as the requirements of the work he has in hand… … of combinations, so also do the lines of design or of drawings, although but two only in number, in the hands of the designer and draughtsman give an infinite number of combinations. It will thus be seen that there is no possibility of giving to any so-called “alphabet” — or, as some designers have…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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