. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. nces a mantelby day. The much-in-little space requirements have in-cited many bright ideas, and the carpenter has exceptional ad-vantages by his constructive ability to study and experiment in TABLES AND STANDS 101 this field of compressed utility. The invention of the most com-pact kitchen cabinet, containing everything needed, from a nut-meg to a half barrel of flour, is undoubtedly a blessing to thehousewife of a lo x 12-foot kitchen. The serving stand is a modified type of the sideboard, or,properly speaking, it was the
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. nces a mantelby day. The much-in-little space requirements have in-cited many bright ideas, and the carpenter has exceptional ad-vantages by his constructive ability to study and experiment in TABLES AND STANDS 101 this field of compressed utility. The invention of the most com-pact kitchen cabinet, containing everything needed, from a nut-meg to a half barrel of flour, is undoubtedly a blessing to thehousewife of a lo x 12-foot kitchen. The serving stand is a modified type of the sideboard, or,properly speaking, it was the original food-serving stand, fromwhich, with a desire to inclose some articles of food or drink, thebuffet was designed, with its drawers and cupboard-like inclo-sures, it was a transition as wealth and the family increased tohave this piece of furniture made very large, and the sideboardbecame a repository of riches in family plate and silver. These are a valued inheritance to the few who are fortunatein having one left to them, but it is feared that many were not. Fig. 118.—Elementary Pattern or Serving Stand. properly appreciated to be in evidence today, on account of theweight and size, and so, like the old four-post bed, modern re-quirements call for something which does not quite take up theentire room. The illustration, Fig. 118, is an elementary pat-tern from which many modifications can be made leading up tothe pattern in Fig. i iq, which approaches the so-called in turn offers sufficient suggestion to use the same sizetreated in various ways and still have the same directness of 102 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN construction. The two pilasters in front offer a good field forvariety in outline and in surface for carving. By the exercise
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