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 189
Figure 103 Fig. 106, shows another old Dutch chair, with cab-riole legs. This is rather a pretentious affair. TheItalian chair shown at Fig. 107 is of late Italian Re-naissance style and is overloaded with unnecessary and 192 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER … THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 193 frivolous carvings. It is a comfortable chair to sit inbut is unwieldly and ponderous. Fig. 108, exhibits aneat German chair suitable for a library, den or evena hall. The carving on it, is chaste and excellentlywrought. The little writing table shown at Fig. 109 is…
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