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 .. . little ebony cabinet,Fig. J2>—now m tne Kensington museum, which wasmade by the celebrated French cabinet-maker, is beautifully inlaid in the most exquisite designs andmade nearly two hundred years ago. Boulle, not to mention many others of the earlierperiod, was an artist; he conceived his own designs, hedrew them out (the patent is given him in his name notonly as a cabinet-m
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 .. . little ebony cabinet,Fig. J2>—now m tne Kensington museum, which wasmade by the celebrated French cabinet-maker, is beautifully inlaid in the most exquisite designs andmade nearly two hundred years ago. Boulle, not to mention many others of the earlierperiod, was an artist; he conceived his own designs, hedrew them out (the patent is given him in his name notonly as a cabinet-maker, but as an architect and sculp-tor), he executed everything with his own hands; hewas a chaser, engraver, and gilder; he was, as we see,a man of cultivated tastes into the bargain. When weadd to his merit as a designer, and a delicate appreciatorof the work of others, his merit as a good workmanwhose productions, without need of repair, are as stoutin the present day, after two hundred years of use asthey were the day they were made, it may be fairly con-ceded, even by the sternest rigorist, that Andre Boulleworked in what is understood as the true spirit. Not THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 145. ^^jfe&^ Figure 68 146 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER only in its construction, but in every feature, in thechoice of the materials, in the chasing and gilding andthe marquetry, his work will be found to be of the mosthonest kind, very different to the modern rubbish thatpasses under the name, where false tortoise shell, madeof horn or gelatine; false mother-of-pearl, box or horninstead of ivory; brass or even zinc lacquered ornamenttacked on to the ill-made joinery usurp the place of truework, whose only fault was that it was produced in aperiod when the traditions of art were on the Boulle used wood it was ebony, which the cabinetmakers, his successors, on the plea of its difficulty inworking, in taking the glue or varnish—Boulle neverused varnish—and other reasons, r
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