The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . joinery in wood-work, andprotested against showed, too, how muchmore harmonious and howmuch more truly artistic aroom would appear fur-nished in the manner headvocated than with the in-coneruous assortment of. Lace Store : French Court. fra eile bow- leorcTec mon- strosities to which the public had become accustomed. It is possible that theenthusiasm of Mr. Easdake led him too far in his crusade, but in the main his 246 THE IMERNATIOXAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. M suofofestions were markedwith good strong commonsense and
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . joinery in wood-work, andprotested against showed, too, how muchmore harmonious and howmuch more truly artistic aroom would appear fur-nished in the manner headvocated than with the in-coneruous assortment of. Lace Store : French Court. fra eile bow- leorcTec mon- strosities to which the public had become accustomed. It is possible that theenthusiasm of Mr. Easdake led him too far in his crusade, but in the main his 246 THE IMERNATIOXAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. M suofofestions were markedwith good strong commonsense and a correct appre-ciation of art. It will be observed thatthe lines of this buffet are,in the main, straight, fol-lowing the grain of thewood, and that the detailof the ornament is verysimple, and that it is of acharacter suitable to thematerial used. In severalplaces tiles have been in-troduced as panels, thusadding- richness and colorto the whole. Carryingout this style, in tiie mind,through a whole set ofdining-room furniture, wecan hardly imagine a morecomfortable or thoroughlysatisfactory series, or onebetter calculated for useas well as ornament. The engraving on page241 illustrates an EbonyCabinet, one of the chefsdoeuvre of the exhibit ofO. B. Frederick, of Dres-den, in the G
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