Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs (1922)
Wells, Percy A, Hooper, John, b. 1882 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 258
s of four-poster bedsteads, in which the use of drapery was a prevailingfeature, drawn up into folded swags at the sides when not in use. The framingand posts of these latter types were connected with rails—a decided improvementon the earlier examples—and canopies were panelled and made in the form… … MODERN CABINETWORK, FURNITURE, AND FITMENTS original books of Chippendale and Sheraton, and well repay careful study.The Elizabethan types are well represented in the Victoria and Albertand Bethnal Green Museums. The very ornate character of these earlyfour-poster beds is accounted for by the…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making
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