Principles of decorative design . all these are fairly embraced in the one expression, Be truthful. An obvious andtrue structure is always pleasant. Let, then, the tenon and the mortise passthrough the various members, and let the parts be pinned together by obviouswooden pins. Thus, if the frame of a chair-seat is tenoned into the legs, let thetenon pass through the leg and be visible on the outer side, and let it be held inits place by glue and wooden pins—the i)ins Ijeing visible. Yet they need notprotrude beyond the surface ; but why hide them ? In this way that old furnitm-e 60 PHINCIPLES
Principles of decorative design . all these are fairly embraced in the one expression, Be truthful. An obvious andtrue structure is always pleasant. Let, then, the tenon and the mortise passthrough the various members, and let the parts be pinned together by obviouswooden pins. Thus, if the frame of a chair-seat is tenoned into the legs, let thetenon pass through the leg and be visible on the outer side, and let it be held inits place by glue and wooden pins—the i)ins Ijeing visible. Yet they need notprotrude beyond the surface ; but why hide them ? In this way that old furnitm-e 60 PHINCIPLES OF was made which has endured while piece after piece of modern furniture, madewith invisible joints and concea,led nails and screws, has perished. This is a true structural treatment, and is honest inexpression also. I do not give this as a principleapplicaljle to one class of furniture only,hut to all. When we have pinnedfurniture with an open structure (seethe hack of chair. Fig. 3-3), the mode ofputting together must of necessity hemanifest; hut in all other cases thetenons should also go through, and thepins hy which they are held in theirplace he driven from one sui-face to theother side right through the 38. In the commencement of this chapter on furniture, I said that afterthe most convenient form has been chosen for an object, and after it has beenarranged that the material of which it ij to hi formed shall be worked in themost natural or befitting way, that then the block-form niust be looked to, after which comes the divi-sion of the mass intolirimary parts, andlas
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