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 390
construction, owing tothe action of adjacent heat. Methods of fixing are previously dealt with inthis chapter. The sketch alongside illustrates an ordinary mantel of the Adam type, above which in theeighteenth century a wall mirror, or to use itspresent-day name overmantel, was fixed, deli-cately… … A Georgian Fireplace (see next page). A modernised fireplace, designed on thelines of those produced during the latter partof the seventeenth century, is illustrated onnext page, showing some characteristic propor-tions and details. The fireplaces of this periodwere of an architectural character,…
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