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 73
andwindows to be constructed in pairs opposite to oneanother, which gave to everybody who lived in hispalaces their death of cold by draughts of air. In this century and early in the following one, theart of wood carving was greatly developed in England,chiefly owing to the genius of Grinling… … Figure 45 out some of his carvings to an astonishing degree ofrealism: bouquets of flowers, festoons of fruit andflowers, birds, figures, and drapery were executed byhim in the highest possible relief, which looked de- THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 73 tached from the ground, and yet they usually…
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