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 176
he de-signs shown on Plate IX, are very clever, and in someinstances, beautiful but are not by any means up to thebest standard of Chippendales work. Perhaps on the whole, Sheraton, was as popular asany of the great English masters, and in our opinion, THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 175 justly so, for… … Figure 92 in fashionable esteem, and was a more sober and elegantdesigner. His pieces never offend the eye, but, on theother hand, they are not so characteristic as those ofhis less artistic predecessor. The double chair, Fig. 91,covered with a piece of Aubusson tapestry, is in hisstyle, though it…
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