The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 72 prices were paid for it, and some very handsome speci-mens were turned out. The little writing table shownin Fig. 74, was specially designed and made for theQueen, and cost a very large sum of money. This tableis now in England and was bought some years ago for$37,000, an enormous amount of money for so small apiece of furniture. An English writer who was at thesale, in speaking o
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 72 prices were paid for it, and some very handsome speci-mens were turned out. The little writing table shownin Fig. 74, was specially designed and made for theQueen, and cost a very large sum of money. This tableis now in England and was bought some years ago for$37,000, an enormous amount of money for so small apiece of furniture. An English writer who was at thesale, in speaking of it, says: It amused me to notice THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 151 that it required a special attendant to guard this littlespecimen, so many were crowding round to inspect Figure 73 It was literally mobbed as I tried to get a glimpse of itfor my note book, and the adjectives showered upon 1;by the upper ten were the most expressive I have everheard applied to furniture. It was oblong in shape, witha drawer fitted with inkstand, writing-slide, and shelfbeneath an oval medallion of a trophy, and flowers onthe top, and trophies with four medallions round the J 52 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER sides. This was stamped J. Riesner, and branded un-derneath with cypher of Marie Antoinette and GardeMeuble de la Reine. This really beautiful article of fur-
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