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 170
o which, if cast in brass or gilt, no one need objectas a finish for the top of the piece, are still not in keep-ing with the severe geometrical tracery of the panelsand sash lines. The two end cupboards especially areout of all harmony with the center form of the pedi-ments. THE PRACTICAL CABINET… … Figure 87 the left the English taste in an uncommonly straight-forward example. Nothing has here been borrowed ofthe French but its lightness and finish. The geometricaltracery is not put out of countenance by the very dis-creet introduction of rococo foliage scrolls at the feetand supporting the…
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