An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 238
Middle 18th Century. work in most cases beingpainted a light grey orother tint. Beech was also ex-tensively used and birch waslargely used in chair making.Among other woods utilisedwere chestnut, which isoften mistaken for oak inold work, and is verydurable ; cherry, used forebonising; hornbeam, a…
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
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