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 64
-holstery during the reign of Louis XIV., but the tables,armoires. cabinets, book-cases, pedestals, clock-stands THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 63 and cases, came under the influence of the architectureof the period, when the kings chief minister, Colbert,selected the best architects and… … An Old Italian Table Quatorze period is that of Andre-Charles Boulle, whosework is known under his name as Boulle. This cele-brated furniture is an elaborate kind of marquetry ofwhich the materials are rare woods, ebony, tortoise-shell, brass, mother-of-pearl, and white metal or tin.The mountings,…
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