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 75
fieri, a skilled chaserof the Louis-Quinze period. In the latter half of the eighteenth century an im-provement in the design of furniture and of ornamentgenerally crept in, owing to the study of the orna-mentation and design of the classic objects that hadbeen found in the buried cities of… … THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 79 the public taste, and by degrees a demand arose fordesigns of a more severe and classic kind. The prevailing taste was then apparently gratified bythe mixture or grafting of a certain quality of classicforms with the former frivolous style of the LouisQuinze. The…
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