Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs . 284 MODERN CABINETWORK, FURNITURE, AND FITMENTS in the right-hand corner of the page, is termed Nulling, and was much usedin frieze rails of panelling and furniture. Strapwork detail with rose centrestaken from pilasters, constantly recurs in modern Elizabethan work. Thesemi-headed panel centre shown on p
Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs . 284 MODERN CABINETWORK, FURNITURE, AND FITMENTS in the right-hand corner of the page, is termed Nulling, and was much usedin frieze rails of panelling and furniture. Strapwork detail with rose centrestaken from pilasters, constantly recurs in modern Elizabethan work. Thesemi-headed panel centre shown on p. 282 is another peculiar feature of thisperiod, either with strapwork pilaster or moulded and carved leaf split turning and mouldings shown are taken from Jacobean work. Refer-ence to p. 288 will indicate additional detail of this period. Fitment—Colonial Georgian (Plate xliv.). The adaptation of Colonial Georgian interiors to drawing and bed roomsis an effective treatment when finished to a white colour, and also with silk wallpanels, which contrast excellently with the rich tones of eighteenth-centuryfurniture. The finely curved mouldings with fretwork traceries, the fluted. fascias, frieze overlays, and turned decoration on corners and muntings, projectdelicately graded shadows upon the groundworks. On p. 285 the enlargeddetails show the method of building up a coved cornice; this is rebatedover the panelled framing, and screwed through the beaded moulding coveringthe screw heads ; the small projection obtained by housing this mouldingis, as shown, an additional advantage, and does not accentuate the union ofpanelling and cornice. Blocks or brackets are fixed at intervals in the cornerof the room to which the top piece of the cove is screwed, and the topmember is then mitred round and fixed to the cornice. The lower part ofpanelling or dadoing is made with long and short shoulder mortise and tenonjoints, with a moulding mitred round, see f. 3. Muntings are
Size: 2246px × 1113px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublisherphila, bookyear1922
