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 177
132 the ornamental wood worker and designer. in boarding perforated work — as for the ventilating apertures at the upper part of structure — the mere disposition of these holes, simple as they are in themselves, may give an effect, pleasing or otherwise, … Fig. 4. according as the disposition of the apertures is arranged. Thus the drawing in fig. 5 shows as simple a form of aperture as can well be found, but the disposition being harmonious gives a pleasing effect. Fig. 5. This is further seen in fig. 6 where simple squares are alternated with curved…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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