. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. st of the worlds creative or architecturalperiods. The open museums and the private collection showa goodly harvest of many early examples in which there are thegenuine work of the best English designs imported by thecolonists, as well as the work of the early American cabinetmakers. To have proper conception of the Colonial we must dismissfrom our minds Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Adamand other English workers and gradually draw together the 26 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN composite type of these workers and the work
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. st of the worlds creative or architecturalperiods. The open museums and the private collection showa goodly harvest of many early examples in which there are thegenuine work of the best English designs imported by thecolonists, as well as the work of the early American cabinetmakers. To have proper conception of the Colonial we must dismissfrom our minds Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Adamand other English workers and gradually draw together the 26 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN composite type of these workers and the work of our own colonycraftsmen who were locally handicapped and otherwise unableto work in any but a restricted manner. We will find that the type resolves itself Intoa most satisfactory formin which the simple ele-mental forms of basepediment, column andscroll are marked incon-stant consideration giv-en to the Colonial asthe prevalent style. The simple outlinesof the table in Fig. 45and workstand, Fig. 44,are used as examples ofdistinctly American Co-Fi-. 34.
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