Canadian wood products industries . how abattery of six trucks, equivalent to three ordinarykilns, may be placed under a single roof without anypartitions between. 18 CANADIAN WOODWORK ICR February, 1916 The French Period Styles—Louis XV The second of a scries of illustrated articles dealing with developmentsin furniture design during this important era By James Thomson Nothing in the way of furnishing can be more im-posing, and to the cultivated eye more artistically sat-isfying than a capacious lofty-ceilinged room donein host Louis XIV. fashion. Seldom is there to hefound here aught likely
Canadian wood products industries . how abattery of six trucks, equivalent to three ordinarykilns, may be placed under a single roof without anypartitions between. 18 CANADIAN WOODWORK ICR February, 1916 The French Period Styles—Louis XV The second of a scries of illustrated articles dealing with developmentsin furniture design during this important era By James Thomson Nothing in the way of furnishing can be more im-posing, and to the cultivated eye more artistically sat-isfying than a capacious lofty-ceilinged room donein host Louis XIV. fashion. Seldom is there to hefound here aught likely to offend artistic sensibility:. Fig. 2. Quite otherwise is it with the French style weowe to the reign that followed. Beginning fairly well,before it ended the Louis XV. style had defied all lawsof regularity and orderly arrangement, and was onlysaved from being Contemptible by the high quality ofthe craftsmanship—by the genius of designers, artists,cabinet-makers, decorators, workers in metals, weavers of textiles, responsible for its development. Contemp-lating the high quality of the workmanship one is aptto overlook the lawlessness of conception, the tendencyIn senseless arrangement and taudriness in motive. Li mis XV. was but a child when called to theIlninie. The Duke of Orleans, a depraved debauchee,became Regent, and his assumption of power was thesignal Eor an irregularity of morals that went on in-creasing up to the end of the reign of the monarchhe was representing. It is singular, but a fact, that furniture of a givenperiod very adequately reflects the spirit of the the style developed during th
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