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 89 almost absurd and showed how the artist must havebeen lost in the struggle after novelties. His imitatorswere as faulty in many of their productions, and Shera-ton, Heppelwhite, Mayhew, Ince, and even the Adambrothers, left much work behind them that had butlittle merit. I do not wish it to be inferred that I am THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 173. ^. 1 ?v I I OT W © P 174 THE PRACTIC
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 89 almost absurd and showed how the artist must havebeen lost in the struggle after novelties. His imitatorswere as faulty in many of their productions, and Shera-ton, Heppelwhite, Mayhew, Ince, and even the Adambrothers, left much work behind them that had butlittle merit. I do not wish it to be inferred that I am THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 173. ^. 1 ?v I I OT W © P 174 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER inveighling against the artistic merits of Chippendaleand his coadjutors, I only speak of his shortcomings asa reminder,- that even Homer himself sometimes chairs and table shown in Fig. 90 are fine ex-amples of the masters work and are really handsomedesigns, and paragons of good construction and faith-ful workmanship.
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