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 55 pieces of furniture, and published a work consisting ofGothic designs in the year 1835. Notwithstanding theefforts of Pugin and some other eminent architects andpurists, no particular lasting impression was made inthis direction. If we except a few of the best cabinet-makers shops,where in the present day some furniture of good design 88 THE PRACTICAL CABINET .MAKER. Figure 56 is
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 55 pieces of furniture, and published a work consisting ofGothic designs in the year 1835. Notwithstanding theefforts of Pugin and some other eminent architects andpurists, no particular lasting impression was made inthis direction. If we except a few of the best cabinet-makers shops,where in the present day some furniture of good design 88 THE PRACTICAL CABINET .MAKER. Figure 56 is made, the majority of such work is now made by ma-chinery, or is often too much the work of the uphol-sterer, and is consequently less artistic and more me-chanical in both design and construction. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 89 Some of the most beautiful of Japanese and Chinesemanufacture is made in carved wood and lacquered inblack or red. Cabinets with drawers and quaintly con-trived cupboards and recesses (Fig. 55) are made bythe Japanese, finished in lacquers, and inlaid with ivoryand mother - of - pearl. TheChinese are especially skilledin carving red vases of great dimen-sions and of exquisite work-manship in this material maybe seen in the various Mu-seums. Lac-work is also ex-ecuted with great skilfulnessby the natives of , armlets, or golias,are made of lac in variouscolors, the golden decorationsof which are made from tin-foil and varnished with ayellow varnish made ofmyrrh, copal, and sweet oilboiled together. Boxes, bed-posts, and
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