The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. (1910)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 148
o season. The bronze he used was honestlychiselled and chased and gilt, not lacquered, and eachornament was a design not stamped out. The secrets of Boulles skill may be said to have diedwith their inventor, for though the traditions were con-tinued, the sobriety and the grandiose style of the… … Figure 69 148 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER by Boulle himself are conspicuously marked, more thanone collector made it his specialty to gather specimensof the great cabinet makers work. Boulle died at the age of eighty-two (February 29,1732) at his house in the Louvre, and was buried in the
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