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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 166

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lly 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 simpler and more rigid forms the English andAmerican makers were preserving good traditions, andif their… … Figure 84 large bookcase, Fig. 85, as will be seen by the plan, isvery simple in construction; but what a hotch-potch thedesigner has made of Gothic-looking clustered columns,false pediment with olive mouldings, and classic 166 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER

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