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 62
62 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER … Towards the end of the sixteenth century, and dur¬ ing the earlier half of the seventeenth, the sumptuous furniture, the beds, and general furnishing of the better class of houses and palaces in France and other Euro¬ pean countries, were characterized by the use of costly silk brocades, tissues,…
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