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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 123

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m the Latin ornare, to adorn. We have thus attained to or reached a point at which, while we do not interfere with the usefulness of a constructed body, we give an added value to it, by imparting to it a quality which pleases the higher faculties of what we have shown to be now known univer¬ sally… … ■Fig. 1. may call it “ ornamented construction.” And we may here note that to distinguish the term “ building,” which primarily concerns itself with pure constructions of utility, from “ architecture,” which obvi¬ ously subserves some purpose other than that of usefulness, it has been by some…

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