The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 292
esigns of cabinet-work, and to a very large extent in chair- and table-work, Hepplewhite is regarded as the exponent of thecurve and Sheraton as the exponent of the straightline. Hepplewhite introduced his curving lines in chairbacks, seat frames, sofas and settees, the serpentinefronts of… … GEORGE HEPPLEWHITE 211 doors of bookcases and cabinets (Key XII, 2) the pref-erence was apparently reversed, for Hepplewhite wasdisposed to use straight lines, while Sheraton turned tograceful curves and incidentally showed what a masterof proportion he was. The same is true of panel shapesin…
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