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 77
Figure 46 were the usual color decorations of ceilings, furniture,carriages, and a host of minor articles such as fans,etuis, snuff-boxes, &c. The latter smaller articles, aswell as the state, carriages, were decorated with paint- 76 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER … Figure 47 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 77 ings in what was known as the Vernis-Martin style.Martin was a decorator of carriages and an heraldicpainter, who invented the particular hard varnish orlacquer which bears his name. It was quite likely thatthis was as near as possible a successful imitation…
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