Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 67
l.I wish to impress my readers with the importance of these considerations, for theylie at the very root of the successful construction of furniture. If the legs of chairs,or their seat-frames, or the ends or backs of couches, are formed of wood cut acrosstlic grain, tliey must cither lie thick mid… … Fig. 28. FURNITURE—CHAIRS. 55 objects may have more or less deadened our senses, so that we are not so readilyoffended by deformity and error as we might be; yet, happily for us, directly weseek to separate truth from error, the beautiful from the deformed, reason assists thejudgment, and we learn…
Decoration and ornament
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