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 91 We show two plates—Nos. VIII and IX of Chippen-dale designs, which, with what we have shown in theforegoing pages, will enable our readers to recognizethis masters work at sight. Plate VIII, illustrates someof his best work, especially the chair backs shown at11 and 12. The other backs shown 1, 3 and 9 are notso chaste but are favorites with some people. The de-signs shown on Plat
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 91 We show two plates—Nos. VIII and IX of Chippen-dale designs, which, with what we have shown in theforegoing pages, will enable our readers to recognizethis masters work at sight. Plate VIII, illustrates someof his best work, especially the chair backs shown at11 and 12. The other backs shown 1, 3 and 9 are notso chaste but are favorites with some people. The de-signs shown on Plate IX, are very clever, and in someinstances, beautiful but are not by any means up to thebest standard of Chippendales work. Perhaps on the whole, Sheraton, was as popular asany of the great English masters, and in our opinion, THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 175 justly so, for his work was, in many instances, as chastein design, as finely finished and much more substantialin construction than the work turned out by Chippen-dale or Heppelwhite. Sheraton succeeded Chippendale. Figure 92 in fashionable esteem, and was a more sober and elegantdesigner. His pieces never offend the eye, but, on theother hand, they are not so characteristic as those ofhis less artistic predecessor. The double chair, Fig. 91,covered with a piece of Aubusson tapestry, is in hisstyle, though it may not be of his make. He was veryingenious in inventions of the sort, and numerous con-trivances for getting double service out of chairs andtables, are ascribed to him. The sofa, Fig. 92, is an ex-cellent example of the same taste, for the alliance ofstraight lines with refined curves, on which his famechiefly rests; indeed, reticence in ornament was hisstudy. 176 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER The sofa shown in Fig. 93, is a dainty work both indesign and finish, and is a typical Sheraton. The two
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