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 & co · leaf 153
Chippendale. Plate VIII 156 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER the next age, became accentuated, as the- followingillustrations of Empire will demonstrate. It hadforced itself into fashion, and opened up fresh fields … Figure 76 and pastures new for the courageous decorator. Itspromoters had gone to draw inspiration from the phil-osophical world of antiquity, and they studiously at-tempted to revive antique rules, traditions and cus-toms, many of which were inconsistent with modernlife. The broad-backed chair…
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