. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. This man and his con-temporaries lived mind, body and soul in their work, and we sus-pect their enduring work was greatly stimulated by personalpraises and substantial patronage; they lived in a period whenmen of mental ability were also equally capable with their Fig. 24 is shown a plain type of Chippendale chair whichis considered quite characteristic, although it is not his favorite 20 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN form, for the leg which he delighted in using was the Frenchleg, but treated less elaborate and more
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. This man and his con-temporaries lived mind, body and soul in their work, and we sus-pect their enduring work was greatly stimulated by personalpraises and substantial patronage; they lived in a period whenmen of mental ability were also equally capable with their Fig. 24 is shown a plain type of Chippendale chair whichis considered quite characteristic, although it is not his favorite 20 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN form, for the leg which he delighted in using was the Frenchleg, but treated less elaborate and more suggestive of the QueenAnne cabriole type as in Fig. 25, which terminates in a balland claw. While Chippendale showed great preference for French detail,he used it in many cases in a very skilled and restrained manneron his cabinet work, the forms of which were usually plain andwell proportioned. In a condensed treatise of this kind, chairsare pictured to show the character of a period as they naturallyoffered a more frequent medium of expression on the part of the. Fig. 29. Fig. 27 Fig. 28. designer for his particular tendency. A clearer impression ofChippendale ornament may be obtained by referring to Figs. 26,27, 28 and the group iq The detail in the first chair back isquite of the Louis XIV and Louis XV order, and again in theback. Fig. 27, he uses in a simple way certain French motifs asshown in the group Fig. iq in clever union with an originalGothic treatment of the open banister, and then in Fig. 28 hecombines this French influence with the Chinese lattice treat-ment, and so in pilaster, rails and panels of other furniture forms INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 21 he utilized these fragments, leafage, scrolls, shells and scallop-ing with rare grace and skill.
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