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 398
ge pieces of cabinet-wrorkwere turned. The chairs were simpler in type and lesspretentious but in the main followed the same generallines of structure. Drawers on some of the pieces ofcabinet-work had heavy oval swell fronts, although theframework was perfectly straight. Bedsteads had boththe old… … 19 290 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE CHAIRS The American Empire chair is more graceful in thelong run than its English cousin, upon which fantasticnotions were often allowed free play. Seats were custo-marily square (Key XVI, 2 and 4; Fig. 2), legs wereboth straight (Key XVI, 4; and Fig. 2)…
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