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 29
esemblethose of some wild animal. Itis supposed that those coucheshad a rich covering by day andbedding by night. The use ofwooden pillows was customary;they were made of various ma-terials, according to the rankof the possessor, and had a sin-gular kind of cavity in whichthe head or the back of… … long. Figure 16At repasts the dining-table was generally circu- THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 33 lar, and supported by a central pillar, which was oftenthe figure of a man as a captive. Other tables hadthree or four legs, and the material of the tablesthemselves, though generally wood, was…
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