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 234
234 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER job. If the designer is not conversant with the gram¬ mar of ornament, all kinds of incongruous mixtures are … created, neither true to style nor beautiful. The same remarks apply also to carving and turnery, and as there Cornices Figure 138 are so many text-books of style published, there is abso¬ lutely no excuse for ignorance in this matter.
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