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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 80

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supporting structure or frame are drawn apart; and this occurs to a markeddegree in this table, as is shown in Mr. Eastlakes illustration, which we here copy(Fig. 43). Falsities of structure, although not so glaring as that of the telescopic dining-table, are everywhere met with in our shops, and,… … Fig. 43. 68 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. wood cut across the grain, which secures to the article the maximum amount ofweakness. Figs. 44, -15, ±6, and -17 are examples of utterly had furniture.

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