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 43 70 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER In this century, in Italy, Andrea Brustolone (1670-1732) was noted as a carver, gilder, and cabinet-makerwho worked in the extravagant style of the LouisQuinze (Louis XV.), and in the first half of the. Figure 44 eighteenth century (1700-77) Pifetti, a Piedmontesecabinet-maker, was honored by the Italian Court, forwhich he executed many works in ivor
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 43 70 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER In this century, in Italy, Andrea Brustolone (1670-1732) was noted as a carver, gilder, and cabinet-makerwho worked in the extravagant style of the LouisQuinze (Louis XV.), and in the first half of the. Figure 44 eighteenth century (1700-77) Pifetti, a Piedmontesecabinet-maker, was honored by the Italian Court, forwhich he executed many works in ivory carving andmarquetry work in the style of Boulle. Many othercabinet-makers and carvers were employed to makefurniture and to decorate the queens palace at Turin,among whom may be mentioned the names of Galleti,the successor of Pifetti, and Maggiolino of Milan, who THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 71 chiefly made a kind of marquetry in light woods. Weare indebted to Mr. J. H. Pollens handbook on furni-ture for some of these names, and a list of many otherswill be found at the end of his useful book. The French architect, Le Pantre (1617-82), de-signed furniture and decoration in the heavy classicalstyle of the Roman antique, mixed with shell-work,grotesques, and little Cupids or putti, and also en-graved and published a book of studies of Roman orna-ment from sketches that his master, Adam Phillipon,had made in Italy. He worked with Le Brun,
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