. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 29. Fig. 27 Fig. 28. designer for his particular tendency. A clearer impression ofChippendale ornament may be obtained by referring to Figs. 26,27, 28 and the group iq The detail in the first chair back isquite of the Louis XIV and Louis XV order, and again in theback. Fig. 27, he uses in a simple way certain French motifs asshown in the group Fig. iq in clever union with an originalGothic treatment of the open banister, and then in Fig. 28 hecombines this French influence with the Chinese lattice treat-ment, and so in
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 29. Fig. 27 Fig. 28. designer for his particular tendency. A clearer impression ofChippendale ornament may be obtained by referring to Figs. 26,27, 28 and the group iq The detail in the first chair back isquite of the Louis XIV and Louis XV order, and again in theback. Fig. 27, he uses in a simple way certain French motifs asshown in the group Fig. iq in clever union with an originalGothic treatment of the open banister, and then in Fig. 28 hecombines this French influence with the Chinese lattice treat-ment, and so in pilaster, rails and panels of other furniture forms INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 21 he utilized these fragments, leafage, scrolls, shells and scallop-ing with rare grace and Fig. 29. As with all who became enamored with French ornament,particularly the excessive overladen character of Louis XV styleand Roccoco, so Chippendale left behind him many drawingsand examples of his work which we would now consider decided-ly erratic and overdone, but we have evidence in drawings andexamples of so much of his better work that we readily overlookhis fancy flying to questionable heights, and his contemporaries
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