The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . THOMAS SHERATON 241 conviction or, perchance, with a view to avoiding someof the constructional difficulties imposed upon cabinet-makers by the rounded forms, we cannot certainly may have been his motive, the result wasmost satisfying from both artistic and practical con-siderations. In his square chair backs, for example,it mattered not whether Sheraton filled them with verti-cal balusters (Fig. 1, (7), diagonal lattices (Fig. 1, H)of ge
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . THOMAS SHERATON 241 conviction or, perchance, with a view to avoiding someof the constructional difficulties imposed upon cabinet-makers by the rounded forms, we cannot certainly may have been his motive, the result wasmost satisfying from both artistic and practical con-siderations. In his square chair backs, for example,it mattered not whether Sheraton filled them with verti-cal balusters (Fig. 1, (7), diagonal lattices (Fig. 1, H)of geometrical severity or ornate splats (Fig. 1, Aand B) that might more fitly be called fretted panels,for they usually filled one-third of the entire back oreven more, the distribution of ornament was alwayswell balanced and gave an impression of both staunch-ness and repose. And it was so, indeed, with almosteverything he did. By a most skilful manipulation ofhis straight lines and a due proportioning of his masseshe succeeded in imparting to all his designs a remark-able sense of dignity and refinement, and we may welladmire the furniture
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