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 36
when there are no doors,the opening being covered with hanging screens of silkor cloth, or with bamboo blinds, like those used inIndia. The Chinese beds are generally simple in form,with cotton or silk curtains in winter, and a fine mos-quito-screen during the heat of summer; the bed of… … THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 35 posed that in the original country of porcelain a veryusual ornament of dwellings consists in vases and jarsof that material, of which the antiquity is valued above every other quality. Thistaste has led to the manu-facture of fictitious an-tiques, not only in…
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