Modern cabinetwork, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinetwork & furniture, with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; (1910)
Wells, Percy A, Hooper, John · London, B.T. Batsford; New York, Jone Lane company · leaf 386
onstruction, owing tothe action of adjacent heat. Methods of fixing are previously dealt with inthis chapter. The sketch alongside illustrates an ordinarymantel of the Adams 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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