. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. lustration is the hall seat, this beinglargely within the province of the joiner and thegeneral scheme of interior case work, and indeed itmay be made a feature of the wainscot of the hallif so desired. In this instance we will consider it as a movablepiece and use it as a model with which to convey to the readercertain information regarding detail which he will doubtless ap-preciate if he proceeds to lay out the drawing and construct style is plain, almost severe, as shown in Fig. 66, thecharm depending solely on th
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. lustration is the hall seat, this beinglargely within the province of the joiner and thegeneral scheme of interior case work, and indeed itmay be made a feature of the wainscot of the hallif so desired. In this instance we will consider it as a movablepiece and use it as a model with which to convey to the readercertain information regarding detail which he will doubtless ap-preciate if he proceeds to lay out the drawing and construct style is plain, almost severe, as shown in Fig. 66, thecharm depending solely on the easy line of the end piece andfoot in its relation to thearm. The rare beauty ingood furniture is to cre-ate that smooth round-ness or undulating surfacewhich the worker, an en-thusiast, alone knows hasnot been produced success-fully by mere is this changing surfacewhich even the artisan doesnot fully comprehend untilafter the final finishing toa dull polish, when theeffect of the lights andshadows brings out the Fig. 66.—General View of Hall 41 42 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN personality of the work. This grades it far ahead of the cutand dried mill work, how ever much we may admire themonotonous precision. As the drawing is sufficiently explanatory, little need be saidother than to enlarge it upon the drawing paper. Starting withthe vertical center line and the floor line, as indicated in Figs. 67and 68, lay off from these measurements taken from the cut—
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