all measure to the slight slope outwards given to the two sides, the graceful curve of the top of the back and the absence of rigidly straight lines or any pedantically plane surfaces.* The chair from Lorn (Figs. 5 to 8) is not designed with the same minute care * The surfaces were probablynot true… … riG. 7.—CARVED WOODEN CH.\IR FROM LOM. RIGHT SIDE as the one just described, but the carving isbolder, and, being on a larger scale, it is perhapsquite as striking as the other, although it will notbear so close an examination of its details. Thepart below the seat is boxed in, forming fourpanels,…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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