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 165
164 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER We may now safetly turn to English, and Americanfurniture, and its makers, of the eighteenth, and thelatter part of the seventeenth centuries, which were theperiods of the most artistic work. In the earliest work,the lingering of Gothic and early Renaissance… … Figure 83 furniture of the same time. French eighteenth-centuryfurniture, though in reality very substantially built, isapt to have a fragile appearance, and every one knowsthat the grace and freedom of its curves are only tobe had at the cost of a considerable loss of strength. Inkeeping to…
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