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 35
is comprised pretty nearly by the mat or carpetspread upon the floor, and the divans or cushionedcouches. For meals a round tray is brought in andplaced upon a low stool, and the company sit roundit on the ground. There is no fire-place, the room beingwarmed when necessary by charcoal burning in… … nations of Asia, and how much more closely they re-semble Europeans. The Chinese are the only Asiatic people who customarily usechairs; they resemble thesolid and heavy chairs infashion during the early partof the 18th century; (see il-lustration of Chinese chair).The seat of the chair has oft-en a…
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