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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 31

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he Louvre, a cast of which is now in the KensingtonMuseum (Fig. 17). The form of the Roman curulechair was like the letter X, and was so called because it 30 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER could be folded and carried easily in the curules orchariots. It was used from the earliest times of theRomans… … Figure 14 to seat two persons, was often a very ornate kind ofseat with turned legs similar to the couches (Fig. 18). In the houses of the Romans a separate room orwardrobe was fitted up to keep the dresses and clothsof the family; this room had cupboards with doors andshelves, drawers, and…

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