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 317
assic purity of structural lines without theloss of distinction resulting from superfluity. 228 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE CHAIRS Like all other furniture of the period, the chairsdisplayed greater purity and restraint of line than hadbeen characteristic of the florid types prevalent… … Fig. 1. Louis Seize Arm-chair.By Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Backs were both carved and upholstered. Uphol-stered backs were square (Fig. 1) with straight toprails, approximately square, with a raised or archedtop (Plate XXIX, p. 226, and Fig 2), hoop- shaped, thetop…
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