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, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 158
158 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER Still in vogue in its larger forms as a dining-table, and those who still possess one will enthusiastically tell you that for a small dinner party there is nothing compar¬ … able with our circular friend. The outward bend and conse([uent placing of one’s neighbors right and left, in a position where conversation is enjoyable, renders the round table unrivalled for the party of six or eight. There is a sturdiness about German furniture, that does not obtain in French or…
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