Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 65
rial.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 acrossthe grain, they must either be thick and… … Fig. 28. FURNITURE—CTTATRS. 55 objects may have more or less deadened our senses, so that we are not so readily-offended by deformity and error as we might be; yet, happily for us, directly weseek to sej^arate truth from error, the beautiful from the deformed, reason assists thejudgment, and we…
Decoration and ornament
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