Our homes, and how to beautify them . the middle of the i8th carried on business in St. Martins Lane, London, for many years. Chippendale may almost be described as thefounder of a furniture school, so largely were his designs copied, withor without modifications of their own, by small cabinetmakers all over the country. It may be taken for grantedthat a vast deal of the so-called Chippen-dale furniture was not manufactured byChippendale at all—was not even designedby him. And here it is permissible to say aword concerning the ignorance with which agreat many people talk about this
Our homes, and how to beautify them . the middle of the i8th carried on business in St. Martins Lane, London, for many years. Chippendale may almost be described as thefounder of a furniture school, so largely were his designs copied, withor without modifications of their own, by small cabinetmakers all over the country. It may be taken for grantedthat a vast deal of the so-called Chippen-dale furniture was not manufactured byChippendale at all—was not even designedby him. And here it is permissible to say aword concerning the ignorance with which agreat many people talk about this interesting,but rather vague personality of the iSthCentury. ^\hen a few years ago the beautvand refinement of old cabinet-work cameinto more general recognition, they caught upthe name of Chippendale, and have beenrepeating it —they and their parrot-like suc-cessors—with the persistency of Foes Havenever since. Chippendale seems to have thesame soothing influence on them in the regionof Art as Mesopotamia had on the pious old. AND HOW TO BEAUTIFY THEM. lady in the region of Theology. They prate about Chippendale, and fly into noisyraptures over any article, no matter how devoid of taste, that goes by his Chippendale was by no means the uniformly great artist that these peopleimagine. All competent critics who have carefully studied his Book of Designs,and compared them with some of his executed work, must have come to theconclusion that he was possessed of a duality which, in an artistic sense, wassomething like that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. For Chippendale had two
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