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 30
ght (Fig. 15). The Romans highly prized and paid good sums fortables that were made from the pollard cross grain ofdifferent hard woods in which the knots and grainshowed to advantage, the beauty of the wood beingbrought out by hand-polishing and by the staining it THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 29… … Figure 13 which had ivory claws or heads of animals as carveddecoration (Fig. 14). Boxwood, beech, and palm, in-laid with ivory, ebony, and precious metals, were usedin the materials of chairs and couches. The latter wereoften made in bronze (Figs. 15 and 16), and chairs ofstate were carved in…
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