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 .. . as the Classical; then there is the Gothicstyle, which, clinging to a certain extent to the Classi-cal, has its own peculiar mode of expression. Then,again, the simple and the Florid styles, which, it is nottoo much to say, are directly opposed to each other;and the Domestic style, which contradicts and entirelysets at defiance the Classical; and we might even add tothem the Grotesque style
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 .. . as the Classical; then there is the Gothicstyle, which, clinging to a certain extent to the Classi-cal, has its own peculiar mode of expression. Then,again, the simple and the Florid styles, which, it is nottoo much to say, are directly opposed to each other;and the Domestic style, which contradicts and entirelysets at defiance the Classical; and we might even add tothem the Grotesque style, which hardly claims relation-ship with any of them. We will endeavour to explainthe difference between them and the requirements ofeach. The classical style would be the line we should adoptin our work when the subject to be treated belongs to 122 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER the classical days of old—when it associates itself withthe grand old bards whose distant footsteps echothrough the corridors of time, or whose conceptions areof that lofty nature that they admit of no minute detail,or dwelling on petty things. Our illustrations of themshould then be in the same style, severe and simple, not. Figure 61 like everyday Nature, but like a something which weall of us, more or less, endeavour to conceive, and evenlong to be about us; but which can only exist ideallywithin ourselves, more or less clear, according as we arecapable of entering into the feeling of the poet, or ofbecoming part of it ourselves. The error modern imitators of Greek Art generallycommit is exaggerating the tendency to straight linesand the repetition of them. The Gothic style, as we have said before, retainssome connection with the Classic by preserving its quiet THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 123 simplicity as well as its grace of line. That it has muchof mannerism cannot be denied, arising, often from themistake of the workers in it, who have fancied thatrudeness and exaggeration of form necessarily be-
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