. American homes and gardens. xamples of this kind are to be found in the Dwight Blaney collection inBoston, Mass. Another showingdrapery and ears of wheat is in theFrancis H. Bigelow collection atCambridge, Massachusetts. Haircloth had now come intouse, and was popular for coveringthe seats, and in many specimens wefind the edges finished with brass-headed nails. These were some-times in plain lines, following theoutline of the seat, and again, tosimulate festoons. The Sheraton chair, which sup-planted the Heppelwhite, retainedmany of the Heppelwhite book of design waspubli

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. American homes and gardens. xamples of this kind are to be found in the Dwight Blaney collection inBoston, Mass. Another showingdrapery and ears of wheat is in theFrancis H. Bigelow collection atCambridge, Massachusetts. Haircloth had now come intouse, and was popular for coveringthe seats, and in many specimens wefind the edges finished with brass-headed nails. These were some-times in plain lines, following theoutline of the seat, and again, tosimulate festoons. The Sheraton chair, which sup-planted the Heppelwhite, retainedmany of the Heppelwhite book of design waspublished two years after Heppel-whites. The great difference be-tween Heppelwhites and Shera-tons was in the construction of theback. The chairs of the latter gen-erally were furnished with the toprail straight or curved like a bow,Sometimes, he designed an easychair like the one known as theMartha Washington Easy chair, aflower, sometimes although not elegantly called husks, high-backed chair with curved arms, padded and covered. The Martha Washington Sheraton chair

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