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 181
181 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER dinary purses. Cases are quoted where a single chair brought as much as 200 dollars. The designs which we illustrate could, probably, be reproduced for one- … third of that sum, and with the carving omitted for still less. That is assuming that costly wood, like rosewood or mahogany, is exacted, and providing for the very best workmanship; quite as artistic results may be ob¬ tained as in those of the originals. The most notable difference between the…
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