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 171
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… … Plate Xll its neighbor, which, though really as soundly built, hasan air of being in full dress, and not to be familiarlytreated. The supper Canterbury and stand by Sheraton THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 171 are likewise simple and of a sturdy elegance. It is insuch pieces as these that we have the…
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