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Principles of decorative design (1870)

Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 78

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upporting 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 securea to the article the maximum amount ofweakness. Figs, -li-, 15, 40, and J.7 are examples of utterly bad furniture.

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